Best looking car of the 1950's?

[shp4man]

It can be American or one 'a them furrin' cars, but who made the best looking car back in the '50's?
Some of my favorites:
55 Mercury

57 Buick

57 Plymouth

54 Jag

55 Mercedes 300 SL

[Northlands]

Probably my favorite. There are a lot of cars I like in the 50's though.

Ferrari 410 Superamerica

[MX793]

Jag XKSS/D-type


Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder


Porsche 550 Spyder

[Payman]

BMW 507

[Eye of the Tiger]

BMW 507

Fuck yeah

[SVT666]

[Cookie Monster]

Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder

[Madman]

1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible.  Gorgeous from every angle!


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[2o6]

(runs and hides)

[68_427]

507 wins.

[cawimmer430]

1956 Cadillac Series 62 Coupe De Ville




1957 Cadillac Eldorado Sedan





'57 Chevrolet Bel Air




'57 Dodge Custom Royal [Lancer]




1957 Imperial Crown




1956 Lincoln Continental Mark II





'57 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser




'59 Cadillac Eldorado





'57 Mercedes 300SL Roadster




Citroen DS Convertible / DS Sedan







BMW 503





Mercedes 300 Adenauer





Renault Floride / Caravelle

[2o6]

Studebaker Hawk

[Gotta-Qik-C7]

Tie: '55 300SL and '57 Bel Air.

[93JC]

Studebaker Hawk

I prefer the earlier Starliners.

A 1954 Champion Starliner:

[GoCougs]

The '50s was quite an area (also, can someone correct the thread title to remove the apostrophe?!). Mopar or no car. 1955 C-300:

[Raza]

I never really put any thought into it, but there were a lot of good looking cars in the 1950s.  I always sort of considered car design to start being attractive in the 60s. 

[GoCougs]

Oh, yeah, baby. the '50s was the pinnacle of design. Owing to body-on-frame construction automakers could for the most part afford to restyle a car every single year.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Oh, yeah, baby. the '50s was the pinnacle of design. Owing to body-on-frame construction automakers could for the most part afford to restyle a car every single year.

LOL because style=design in the CougSPIN world of CamcordSPIN.

[GoCougs]

I give a nod to the best looking Chevy of the '50s, the '58 Impala:

[GoCougs]

LOL because style=design in the CougSPIN world of CamcordSPIN.

Unit body cars are more expensive to redesign owing to the integration of the body and chassis (i.e., material redesign of panels = redesign of chassis). BoF constructions allows whole sale changes to the body without a chassis redesign. In the heyday of the '60s a good portion of the cars of the era - Mustang, Camaro/Firebird, Mopar B-body (Charger, Road Runner, Super Bee, etc.), Mopar E-body (Challenger, Barracuda) - were unit-body with the corresponding slowdown in redesign. There were a few notable stalwart BoF holdouts though such as the GM A-body (GTO, Chevelle, 442, GS).

[Galaxy]

I would add the 1959 Ford Thunderbird. All years of the 2. generation 'bird are good

[Morris Minor]

I kinda like the early 1950s cars, before tailfins.


1951 Hudson Hornet

[Secret Chimp]

I don't like how the D-type looks. It looks like a frankfurter.

[2o6]

Oh, yeah, baby. the '50s was the pinnacle of design. Owing to body-on-frame construction automakers could for the most part afford to restyle a car every single year.

I don't know, part of me agrees - there was a lot of attention to detail and style that most cars emitted back then, but being BOF, most of the proportions from cars of that era are the same. IMO, during the 60's (especially Europe) more attention was given to attractive proportioning and svelte styling rather than glitz and glamor.

[Madman]

I don't know, part of me agrees - there was a lot of attention to detail and style that most cars emitted back then, but being BOF, most of the proportions from cars of that era are the same. IMO, during the 60's (especially Europe) more attention was given to attractive proportioning and svelte styling rather than glitz and glamor.

Yeah, the 1950s were more about style over substance.  But when the style looked so gorgeous, who cared about the ancient pre-war ironmongory underneath? 

[FoMoJo]

Many of my favourites are, already, mentioned...

1959 Chrysler Imperial



I thought these were, kind of, special as well...

Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider.  This is a '59

[Secret Chimp]

I like the 56 Imperials the best. They got all weird later in the decade.

[CALL_911]

I don't know if anyone mentioned the BMW 507, but it gets my vote.

[FoMoJo]

Some more...

[pendyman]

So many great ones already posted. Just adding a few more of my faves:

1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz






Even the 1956 Eldorado was pretty great



1956 Lincoln



1957 Lincoln



Insanely over the top 1958 Lincoln Continental





1955 Nash Ambassador



2 seater Thunderbirds. This one happens to be a 1957



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