The Greatest Supercars and Sports Cars of the 1950s Following the post-war austerity of the 1940s, you’d be forgiven for...
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1959→1963 Porsche 356B/1600 Coupe In September of 1959 Porsche revealed their fully updated 356 known as the 356B. This had...
1959→1963 Porsche 356B/1600 Cabriolet Porsche offered the 356B Cabriolet as a high-end touring car with a thick-padded convertible top and...
1959 Porsche 356A/1600GS Carrera de Luxe Coupé Of all the Carreras, the 1959 de Luxe was best suited for the...
1959 Pontiac Bonneville Bunkie Knudsen took his new plans for Pontiac a giant step forward in 1959 with the new...
1965→1968 Austin-Healey 3000 MKIII BJ8 ‘Phase II’ In 1965, the MKIII was updated to Phase II specification which included a...
1959→1959 Scarab Mk. II After the first Scarab proved itself to be a winning platform, additional cars were made with...
1959 Sadler-Meyer Special In 1959, Bill Sadler modified John van Meyer’s race car into this Sadler-Meyer hillclimb special. The car...
1959→1968 Rolls-Royce Phantom V When it came time to replace the aging Silver Wraith in 1959 – an endearingly classic...
1959 Lister Costin After a fire at Jaguar’s own Browns Lane Plant destroyed the competition department in February 1957, Lister...
1959 Lincoln Continental Mark VI In 1959 Ford dropped the Continental brand and instead continued production of the Lincoln Continental....
1959→1961 Austin-Healey 3000 MKI BN7 In an attempt to rebrand the Austin Healey, it was renamed the 3000 that represented...
1959 Ford Thunderbird In Detail submitted by Richard Owen built at Detroit, Michigan, USA price $ $4 209 engine V8...
1959 Ford Galaxie Skyliner Produced for just three years (1957-59), the car sold a total of 12,915 units in 1959,...
1959 Ferrari-Chevrolet 250 GT Coupé When the supply of European replacement engines dried up in the sixties many enterprising racers...
Maserati 5000 GT As an imperial request from the Shah of Iran, the 5000 GT was built by Maserati as...
1959 Maserati 5000 GT Gallery In November of 1958 Mohamed Reza Pahlavi was impressed with the 3500 GT catalog but he wanted...
Ferrari 400 Superamerica Series I The large, fast and luxurious 400 Superamerica replaced the outgoing 410 model and continued Ferrari’s...
Ferrari 400 Superamerica Coupé Speciale The first 400 Superamerica, chassis 1517SA, appeared at the 1959 Salon de Torino as a...
1959 Ferrari 250 TR59 After winning the 1958 World Sports Car Championship, Ferrari had to update the Testa Rossa to...
Ferrari 250 SWB California Spyder Competizione After a series of nine competition versions of the Spyder California were made on...
Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Competizione At the 1959 Paris Salon, Ferrari introduced the short-wheel-base (SWB) Berlinetta as an out-and-out...
Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet Series II After Ferrari’s first regular production Coupe was launched in 1958, its cabriolet version followed...
1959 Ferrari 246 S ‘Dino’ Just as Ferrari embarked on their V6 Formula One program, they debuted a V6 sports...
1959 Ferrari 196 S ‘Dino’ The Ferrari 196 Dino was the first Ferrari sports car to receive the V6 engine....
1959→1962 Facel Vega HK 500 In 1959, Facel Vega updated their FVS model and called it the HK500. Included was...
1959 Cooper Type 39 ‘Bobtail’ Gallery In 1955 Cooper introduced their mid-engine Type 39 ‘Bobtail’ two years before their similar...
1959 Cooper Type 49 Monaco Mk1 Gallery By 1953 Charles Cooper and his son, John were already converting their successful...
1959 Desoto Adventurer Convertible Coupe Also called the Golden Adventurer, this model represented the top-of-range for Desoto in 1959. IT...
1959→1962 Bentley S2 Continental Drophead Coupé In 1959 Bentley upgraded their flagship chassis to the 6¾-liter V8 including the S2...
1959 Bentley S2 Continental In 1959 Bentley upgraded their flagship chassis to the 6¾-liter V8 including the S2 Continental which was...
1959 Cooper Type 49 Monaco Mk1 By 1953 Charles Cooper and his son, John were already converting their successful grand...
1959 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray In 1959 chief stylist Bill Mitchell made his own version of the Corvette using his...
1959 Chevrolet Corvette Scaglietti Coupe When the crankshaft broke on Gary Laughlin’s Ferrari Monza he had had enough. Being the...
1959 Chevrolet Corvette CERV I Zora Arkus-Duntov masterminded several experimental cars, including the Chevrolet Engineering Research Vehicle (CERV) which has...
1959 Chevrolet Corvette In motorsport the Corvette was a serious contender thanks to the fuel-injected V8 engine. It won the...
1955 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible Three years into Eldorado production they updated the design for the third consecutive year. For 1955...
1956 Cadillac Eldorado Seville In 1956 Cadillac extended their top-of-line Eldorado name to a new Coupe called the Seville. Short...
1959 Cadillac Eldorado Seville By the late 1950s, Cadillac ruled the American luxury car market with exciting products that were...
1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz No other car captures the essence of the “jet age” quite like the 1959 Cadillac Eldorado,...
1959 Cadillac Cyclone XP-74 The Cyclone, a 1959 show car with an aircraft-inspired design, explored futuristic technology. An early version...
1959→1967 Jaguar Mark 2 Jaguar’s mid-size four-door sedan, known in England as a Saloon was the Mark 2 which was...
1959 Elva Mk V Frank Nichols’ first sports-racer was built in 1954, designed by Mick Chapman, competing immediately, and successfully,...
1959 Elva Courier The main road car, introduced in 1958, was called the Courier and went through a series of...
