1950's Advancement Of Cars

In the 1950's cars changed the style of clothing, music and, '' Hot Rods'' became the new thing. The manufactures came from ''war efforts'' to making the new big thing, which was the new cars. The automotive industry grew dramatically. During the war they made very little cars. Instead they made tanks and planes.

In fact 1 in 6 were working for the automotive industry so about 17% of the population worked on, sold or built cars. In one year the country made about 8 million cars.

As the automobiles came out people wanted to race them that is how NASCAR was made. It was the second most watched sport in that time, right behind Football. people wanted to see the excitement and see the new improvements technologies in a car. The cars changed but most of all the companies and culture changed the most. their were drive thrues, drive ins, drive in movies and drive in everything.

they had cars that were luxurious but now the new thing was making them fast and cool. Hot Rods is the name, They would generally lower them make them loud and give them a cool paint-job. These projects were generally show cars and made for car enthusiast.