2021年5月16日 · These highly successful race cars from the 1950s have now turned into desirable collectibles.

The Chevrolet Corvette and Ford Thunderbird become the first true American sports cars. Late in the decade, the Corvette would adopt a V8 engine and become heavily competitive in endurance racing. The Indianapolis 500 is added to the new grand prix schedule. It is later replaced with a United States Grand Prix in 1959. [1]

Following the post-war austerity of the 1940s, you’d be forgiven for thinking the car world had gone a bit mad by the time the 1950s came around. This decade saw flying saucers, a supercar with the wings of a seabird, and racing cars barely altered and sold for the road, as the car industry gained the confidence to embrace the future and ...

2014年7月7日 · Characterised by a steep rise in technical innovation, these two decades are important for several reasons; with the vintage days well and truly over, the cars of the 1950s were altogether different. Top speeds climbed inexorably upwards, and chassis engineering and aerodynamics became better understood.

2016年8月30日 · American and European sports cars remained competitive with ever improving performances throughout the 1950s. Jaguar is one of the legendary racing cars of the 1950s.

2020年5月12日 · We have been steadily counting down our choices of the best supercars by decade over the past few weeks and now we have reached the 1950s. But no supercars. Why? Well, at least by our definition here at GRR, 99.9 per cent of the time a supercar should be mid-engined, and road cars using that layout wouldn’t appear until the next decade.

2021年10月13日 · The best racing car of the 1950s was actually designed at the end of the thirties and had won plenty of races by the time the first ever Formula 1 World Championship was held. The Alfa Romeo Alfetta 158 was the only true factory car on the grid and it won every round in that inaugural 1950 season, barring the Indianapolis 500, then a round of ...

2020年7月25日 · Frank Kurtis was one of the best known race car builders of his day, perhaps of any day. From his shop in Glendale, California, Kurtis produced five of the Indy 500’s first 6 winners of the 1950s. His company, Kurtis-Kraft, built hundreds of sprint and midget racers that would dominate the nation’s dirt track ovals during the post war ...

2021年4月30日 · These are the seven cars we reckon stand proud of the rest. The first champion F1 car was built long before the Formula 1 championship was ever introduced. The Alfa Romeo 158 was designed for the 1938 Grand Prix season, to compete in the voiturette class that acted as a second tier to the main Grand Prix competition.

The 1950s were also a defining decade for racing, marked by fierce competition, groundbreaking technological advancements, and cars that became legends in their own right. These vehicles were not just machines; they were embodiments of the passion, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of speed that characterized the era.