My recent columns on cars and engines from the 1950s have generated numerous letters and e-mail comments from my loyal readers (thank you so much!). A few years ago I wrote a Top 10 Muscle Cars column, and here I present a “notable list” of the top 10 American cars from the 1950s, regardless of performance. These are cars that, for one reason or another, influenced my love of cars during that great decade I grew up in.
In chronological order, they look like this:
1952 Oldsmobile Super 88: Introduced in 1949…