There’s rare, and then there’s 1-of-43 rare. Fewer than 50 of these Corvette Airboxes were built by Chevrolet in 1957, but what exactly is an Airbox Corvette? Simply put, it’s a fuel-injected, or ...
Debuting for the 1955 model year, the second-generation Chevy Bel Air featured a slick new design and an appealing standard equipment list. Chrome spears adorned the front fenders, windows featured ...
Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...
On Oct. 4th, 1957, at 10:29 PM Moscow time, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1 into space on a repurposed R-7 rocket. The world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik was about 22 inches ...
Created by Czech director and animator Zdeněk Miler in 1956, Krtek, or The Mole in English, was an international hit with children. Because the cartoons were presented with no dialogue, Krtek was held ...
Most people think of a 1957 Chevy Bel Air as the crown jewel of the Tri-Five Chevys—a rolling symbol of rock-’n’-roll Americana, rocking tailfins, tons of chrome, and turquoise paint. But this one?
Every great band has an early era. For The Beatles, the most famous rock band of the 20th century, those early years involved a little band called The Quarrymen. This skiffle group was formed by John ...
Vik is the Co-Founder and former Editor at MotorAuthority, a leading U.S. website covering performance and luxury cars. Since 2025, he has contributed to CarBuzz, blending his engineering background ...
The iconic Chevrolet Bel Air was accompanied by a two-door station wagon variant called the Nomad from 1955 through 1957, making it one of the ever-popular Tri-Five Chevys. However, the Nomad is ...
Chevrolet’s famed Tri-Five automobiles—built in 1955, 1956, and 1957—were models that established themselves as automotive heartthrobs in their time, and even more so over the course of ensuing ...
When it comes to icons of the American automotive history, you have the Model T, the Mustang, the Corvette, the Continental, and the F-150, among many others. There is a good chance that many people ...