Beautiful vintage color photographs capture classic cars during the 1950s:
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| A Bristol 401 hellicopter and a Bristol car, 1950s. |
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| Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson leaning on his 1950 pink Cadillac convertible, Harlem, 1950s. (George Karger) |
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| A Cadillac ‘Debutante,’ with leopard print seat covers, New York, 1950. (Herbert Gehr) |
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| A Daimler Regency Saloon Convertible Coupe special series car, London, 1952. |
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| A 1952 Lincoln Capri, 1952. |
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| A Talbot Sunbeam car, 1952. (Ronald Startup) |
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| Simca, Paris, 1952. (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
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| Greenwich Village, New York, 1953. (Ernst Haas) |
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| Car show, Jardins De Bagatelle, Boulogne, 1954. (Jean-Philippe Charbonnier) |
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| Mercedes W196 Silver Arrow car, 1954. |
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| Lincoln Capri, 1955. (Walter Sanders) |
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| John Bryant with his AC sports car in Kinnerton Place, London SW1, 1955. (Slim Aarons) |
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| Sports car rally, Virginia, 1955. (Ralph Morse) |
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| Ford Thunderbird, Ford Fairlane Crown Victoria and Mercury Montclair Coup, 1955. (John Dominis) |
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| The car park at the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami, 1955. (Slim Aarons) |
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| A Ford Zephyr convertible car on display, London, 1956. (Jack Esten) |
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| A Plymouth station wagon, Stowe, Vermont, 1956. (Ivan Dmitri) |
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| An Oldsmobile Super 83 Holiday Coupe, 1956. (Clifford Coffin) |
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| Mercedes 190 SL convertible car, 1956. |
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| Marie-Helene Arnaud poses in the open door of a red MG convertible sports car, Paris, 1957. (Loomis Dean) |
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| A model sitting on the wing-back of a red 1959 Chevrolet Impala Convertible, 1958. (John Rawlings) |
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| Japanese imported cars on display, 1958. (Eliot Elisofon) |
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| Audience watching a motor racing in an open field, 1959. (Leonard McCombe) |
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| A young couple holding hands next to a 1959 Ford Thunderbird motor car, 1959. |
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| Cars parked at Tiny Naylor’s drive-in, 1959. (Ralph Crane) |
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| A bubble-car Messerschmitt Roadster KR 200, Bavaria, 1959. (Spitta) |
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| Taxis parked on the quayside in Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda, 1959. |
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| Parents sitting inside a beach cave while watching their daughter on their red Mercury Monterey convertible, 1959. (Tom Kelley) |
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| A British built Aston Martin DB4 two-door hardtop coupe right-hand drive car, 1959. |
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| A young couple drive in a 1958 Austin-Healey Sprite (Frogeye) car, 1959. (Hy Peskin) |


































