Sometime in the late 1950s, Richard Petty needed his car painted before a race. "We had some blue paint and some white paint; not enough of either for the whole car." The shade of blue created became ...

Plymouth's take on the 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona, the Superbird arrived in 1970 and stormed both showrooms and the NASCAR circuit. Even though it looks identical to its corporate sibling, the ...

Even though America's first compact car, the Nash Rambler, hit showrooms in 1950, the Big Three only jumped on the bandwagon at the end of the decade. Chrysler introduced its first compact in 1959.