13 WORST Cars From The 1950s, Nobody Wants Back! 

This video is a classic example of "Talking just to hear your head roar".

This guy grew up strapped in the back seat of his momma Honda Civic. He ain't got a clue about the 1950s.

So, if these cars, The Metro,T bird, Hawk, were so unpopular, why are they so damn Popular with collectors today. These cars were all ahead of their time.

Mustang II? Come on... Should I explain when the fifties happened?

The last 3 are from the 70's, not 50's... 🙄

I still want a 1957 Ford Thunderbird! I don't care if it leaks water in the rain -I'll drive it on sunny days!

All of these cars are better than your video!

Cars from the 1950's ? Well, you almost had it right until the last 3 cars on your list.

In the Mercury Turnpike Cruiser segment, why is there footage of a late '50s Chrysler product? Why does the Eldorado Biarritz segment have so much footage of '57 and '58 Cadillacs? And do you really think that '59 Eldorado Biarritz owners would be among those cost-conscious drivers worrying about rising gas prices?

Can I suggest adding the Benz 3 Wheeler from 1890's, Model T Ford, the Yugo 55… These were from the '50's.

What a poorly put together video. Often the wrong car or engine or interior is shown. Problems are mentioned that I've never heard of before and the 1971 Vega, the 1974 Mustang II, and the 1978 Pacer aren't 1950s cars by a considerable stretch.

Not sure why the Vega, Pacer and Mustang II were included in the video. Clearly not 50's cars. Was the title submitted before the content perhaps?

My family had a '54 Nash Metropolitan, I remember as being a nice little runabout, and we even took it on weeklong journeys. Not everyone felt cheated by its being a compact automobile.

Too bad. All of these cars look great. I actually saw a 1956 Packard Caribbean a few years ago in two-tone blue; absolutely breathtaking.

Poorly researched. Pictures used often did not match with year of car being discussed A waste of time

I think I would take just about any of those cars compared to the junk that is on the American roads today talking about all the foreign junk cars

Last time I checked 1950's ended on Dec.31, 1959. So the cars from the 1970's are greatly removed form the 1950"s!

Guess they needed 3 more cars to get the unlucky 13 number..... so why not throw in some random cars from another decade...

Why, oh why, are these videos produced? Whoever produces these videos has absolutely no interest or knowledge about cars. All they do is anger real car buffs and invite the hate nerds to say stupid things like "I'd never have a car of the fifties. The air bags and crumple zones only work when the touch screen displays the back up camera and the heated seats are activated by the mandatory power windows". Besides, cars of the 1950s don't include cars of the 1970s. And the insertion of the wrong car is inexcusable ('60 Mercury for a '57. Studebaker sedan for a Hawk. '57 TBird for a '55.

The Crowley Hotshot clinched victory at Sebring’s 12 hour race. It finished first, second and third in its class completing 15 laps in the 12 hour event. I would love to get hold of the July 1950 Car and Driver magazine to see what really happened.

I generally like foreign cars of that era, but the '59 Caddie convertible has always been a beauty---especially in red. (Although a mechanical POS, my dream car has always been a '63-67 Jaguar XKE. I couldn't afford one new, nor can I afford one now).

Tenured College professors wore plaid elbow patches and rode a bicycle or drove crappy economical loser cars under the speed limit. a turnpike cruiser would give him a guilt trip

5:48 Lordy, I love that Nash Metropolitan Station Wagon! The school teacher lady who rented the duplex across the street had a black Thunderbird, a later model though. All black, including its hard top, it was a beautiful sight.

The Caribbean is the perfect candidate for a "Resto mod" work.

"Forgotten relics", whatchoo smokin Mac?

How Can you jump from the 50's to the 70's end of video for me

They used a 4L60-E in the Packard?? What!!???

And you said the cars from the 50's but you skipped from decade to decade! What's up with that? And the George Jetson car And the.foodarackacycle is broken again Jane!!!

Actually, we collect many of these cars . And they bring in big dollars and the auctions

Lets talk about Pacer's lack of "adequate" engeneering. In discusions with G.M., AMC had an agreement with G.M. to purchase the rotery engine that G.M. assured them they would produce. Based on this, AMC DESIGENED their Pacer with the rotery engine in mind. It was only after AMC already had started production of the Pacer and had autos sitting around waiting for engines that G.M. announced they had decided to back out of the deal. AMC was stuck between a "rock & a hard place" not having a motor that would fit their car. In desperation they installed their 6cyl which did not fit. THANKS G.M.!

The Hot Shot never ever came with the tin block.

I like most of those cars, especially the big Dodges.

I still have my Vega-- outfitted it with sway bars, Koni Shocks, took great care of it. It was alot better than most people debunk it to be, as long as they took care of it.

But but my dad owned a Hudson terraplane and it had a bad door latch and I fell out by leaning on the door! Now I lean to the left when riding in any car! And the thunderbird had porthole windows which was the coolest thing I ever saw. But I was just a kid so what did I know? And I owned a lark myself with a three on the steering wheel column that's how I learned to shift a standard transmission. And my parents owned a mercury wagon and it was a bohemeth, but it fit all 12 of the family comfortably! But it had no speakers to speak of so we sang rolling down the hi-way!

The Crosley stole a lot of Austin-Healey design cues.

Please don’t “click to fill” 4:3 material (do not BBC; Blow-up / Blurr / Crop) old video (or film converted to video) that degrades the resolution to less than standard definition. It may look OK on a computer screen but on a TV it’s reduced to blurry mush. Leave 4:3 alone!

Was the '58 Plymouth Fury that different from the '57 Dodge Coronet? They appear almost identical, as cooperate twins would.

I had many friends who had Chevy Vega's and I never heard of any of the mechanical problems mentioned. I will say riding in them felt like riding in an under powered compact made entirely of cast iron. I myself had the successor to the Vega which was the Chevy Monza which was surprisingly one of the best cars I ever owned and I owned many over my long life. My Monza had a 140CU Aluminum 4 cylinder with an overhead cam and it performed equivalent to a Nissan 240 SX, I know this from racing my brothers 240 which I had expected to lose to easily and instead consistently came to a tie with.

Packard segment shows modern car electrics

The Metro was known for very weak front ends. Get too sporty and the front spindles would break off. What really killed the Metro though was the Beetle.

I used to see many of those Metropolitans in UK. Small cars with the unusual door. Then they all disappeared. (like the Renault Daupihne and the very US-looking Vauxhall Victor with dragons' teeth chrome fenders).

50"s? Hmmm, well I do remember the Mustang 2's illustrious career. California CHP had ordered some for the purpose of high speed pursuit where I lived in San Bernardino. They found out at 100 mph the front floated and became extremely dangerous to drive. These Mustangs had the 302 block, special order from Ford.

Gaps and visible flaws? Please tell me this isn't a problem with all cars, especially with al trucks of any year. 13) The Crosley Hotshot. It was guly, and no one in this Country would settle for am inline four. 12) The Packard Carribean. The Automatic Transmission was experimental at the time and other Companies never put it in their highest rankd cars until the transmission had been refined enough to desrve to go into it. Also, the Straight-Eight engine was too antiquated for anyone to want it. 11) Nash Metropolitan. It looked too wierd and yes the small engine was a factor. A lot of people would love to have a stock one right now. 10) Ford T-Bird. He has to diss this one as Biden likes Corvettes and this T-bird was not only a better car in being a metal car with a V-8 but also looked better hands down. 09) Studebaker Golden Hawk. They were chasing Dodge/Chrysler with cars that had fins08). Mercury Turnpike Cruiser. It is a Family car. So what's your point? 08) Edsel. It wasn't as bad as everyone cries about. One. It is a good looking car if you can get over the car's nose. Two. The only problem with it was new untested tech. But don't say anything because it was the infant form of what you now cal paddle shifters and any other tech that is in the wheel like Cruise-Control or the speed control buttons used in the first Dodge Caravan. Three. The second bodystyle leftovers were used to create the limited-edition 1960 Sunliner. 07) 1959 Cadillac. He can't say anything about this considering it is one of the best designed during a year when all GM cars except the Impala of that year were all dogs. 06) Kaiser-Darren. he has to diss this one because of what it was/is. It was the Corvette as Corvette was in it's Second year. And this car had MOPAR in it. Kaiser was part of AMC which was MOPAR parts-bin. 05) The Dodge Coronet. How can he diss the Motor of the Brotherhood of Muscle? All of their cars to my knowledge that got a Hemi in '68, were on a platform based off of this car. 04) Chevy Vega. Yes it was a failure, at attempting to make a small American Car. We used to be able to but all we can do successsfully now is make supersized everything. 03) The Second Generation Mustang. Back off of it now. Without this car the Mustang would have died with the First generation being the only Muscle Generation. And without the Mustang, there would have been ZERO Musclecars from ALL Companies because of it because all of the Muscle made because they were chasing the sales of the Mustang regardless to the size of the car. You would not have gotten A-Body Musclecar competiton either. So like with the Pinto which this car is built on that Platform,and you better. If you love Muscled cars, then you an apology and a debt of gratitude to both. 02) Ford Pinto. See above. 01) AMC Gremlin. Where else could you get a Compact car with the chioce to put a MOPAR V-8 as it's Powerplant? Signed-RIchard.

Imagine that! A 1971 car came out in the 1950's! Incredible!

The '58 Edsel Corsair may have left a lot to be desired, but I had a '59 Edsel Ranger and I loved that car! I'm 6'8" and had to lean forward to be able to reach the dashboard! The hood and trunk came up to my hip. Roomy, dependable with its column shift transmission and its 312 V8. Undercoated from the factory it was still just as solid in 1989 as it had been when it was new.

My father had a "57" Merc, and its biggest problem was overheating. The engines had water-jackets that were too small to pass a sufficient amount of water to remove enough heat to prevent overheating. Dad had nothing but trouble with that car. I remember him saying "The year Chevy came out with their best car ever, I bought that G-D Merc".

This might well be why my family chosen to drive Volkswagen beetles and busses back then. The slide roof bus served us well.

What a shame about the Packard Caribbean. An absolutely gorgeous car to view. Might be a good candidate for a complete restoration of body and gut everything else to be replaced with modern more reliable parts.

Those dated sounding voices of 1950s commercials amuse me.

The Mustang ll would have done much better if it was not named a Mustang. It will always suffer from comparison to past Mustangs. Should have had it's own badge name.

That 1959 Cadillac misses a dead dear on its hood.

You said that Studebaker was "known for their lack-lustre cars" during your presentation of a '56 Golden Hawk (which is anything but lack-luster itself). Going back a few years, Stude introduced the brilliant and popular Champion model just before WWll, the first post-war styled car (many features copied by other auto makers), the '53 Starlight and Starliner Coupes which were called by designers as the best designed cars of the 1950's (and made all other cars look 10 years older) and was the first postwar example of what became the popular "personal car". Add to that, models with superchargers, the industry's first self adjusting brakes, tuff OHV V8's 4 years before Pontiac , Plymouth or Chevrolet and the first low-priced car with a true automatic transmission. l believe your credibility is in question.

How come the timing of the 1974 Mustang 2's release coinciding with the 1973 oil crisis challenged its reception when it was a response to the oil crisis?

we had a golden hawk. it was great .

1955 Ford Thunderbird and nobody wants it? Those things are super collectible. Most of them are, if not downright iconic. Then you jump to 3 turds from the 70's. OK they're all trash but wrong decade much?

I owned a mustang 2.....the WORST POS and biggest waste of money I ever did....that was a turning point for me AWAY from FORD

I think that the Packard Caribbean is a beautiful car-for a start, the bodywork is of the very finest order and it looks as if it was made for cruising down long straight roads if I had the money to buy one though, I'd see if a manual gearbox could be put in.

Why isn't the 1975 AMC Pacer in this list of bad cars from the 1950s?

The parking garage on my block used a towed Crosley Hotshot as a way for the driver to get back to the garage after delivering a limo to an owner on 5th Ave in NYC.

I would be amiss if I did not point out that many of these cars became collector cars which are cherished by there current owners!

My father owned a Mustang 2 with a Boss 305 wedged in! It was fast but a bitch to get stopped with all the weight inn fount. At one point he was driving a Mavrick with the same engine. I got a ticket in that car for doing 102 mph on the Kentucky Turnpike! 1976

What I would have loved to have is a King Midget!!!! So simple, and would have been great for around town!!! No more dangerous than the 1973 Pinto I drove for years!

I thought the title say 13 worst car from 50's not 60's and 70's and so on😂😂

Interesting that the 57 Mercury Turnpike cruiser had quad headlights as they were barely DOT approved for 57 and these cars were usually designed 2 years prior to release years. '57 Ford was supposed to have quads but they went to a retrofittted DOT single headlight at the last minute because they were not sure of the '57 DOT approval of the quad system.

That Hot Shot was bad. It looked cheap. Thanks you for sharing such an informative video with us. I saw some cars I've never heard of. When I was growing up we had a Rambler convertible but it was only the very top that went down.

How much is a 59 caddy these days?

I can't see any car here that I wouldn't love to have in my garage, Even the Vega, Mustang 2, and the AMC Pacer. These is real cars, No rolling computers

I give a C+ for effort. Whoever edited this video did a pretty poor job of it

You seem to be mistaking the Mercury Turnpike with the Plymouth Fury.

successor? burrits? and 1971 chevvy vega? '74 mustang ii? '78 pacer? how do they fit in this video? who writes this sh!t?

That's me at 1:18...

Edsel CORSAIR - was only one of four models. So much more trouble than you measure. Cadillac BI - AR -RITZ has three syllables. This entire post is offensively substandard. 😡😡😡😡

some of these cars were not from the 1950s but the terrible 1970s

We would do well to have these cars today. Everything is a SUV now.

Everybody wants a Studebaker hawk 12:18 12:27 😊 13:56

I would love to have a Crosley...

Nothing says rotten craftsmanship like EDSEL. 😆

Lies about the Edsel. I own one. I should know.

I daily drive a 1957 Chevy Bel Air. It will be on the road for another 100 years.

WTF? The Vega was built in the 1970s, not the 1950s.

2:20. That thing won at Sebring? What was its opposition? Soap Boxes?

Pretending to be experts when you're S for Brains is a sad fact of courrent internet.

I was going to badmouth this clip, but basically every comment beat me to it.

went from advertised 50’s cars jumped right into 70’s miss steps especially due to oil embargo. just think if the USA would have sped up oil production then how much better off we would be even under green deal joe.

The mustang pinto. Lousy car, but not 50s. It's from the 70s! You really should get your titles corrected.

The 1957 Ford redefined "ugly"

Sounds like another video made by someone who has never had or seen any of these cars. Whether or not any of them had issues back in the 1950's when they were new, is irrelevant today. Cars with had less desirable power trains simply get modern power plants and transmissions installed and thus they become what ever the owner wants them to be. I would never look at any Crosley as a 'sports car' while some may have raced them, they were more or less an early econobox type car with low expectations and a low price. They were never meant to be competitors of more expensive sports cars. The only car on the list I find issue with is the Thunderbird but as a guy who's 6ft3in tall, I simply don't fit. Powertrain wise, they were no different than any other Ford of that era. Packard in its later years was struggling with costs and profits, their cars began to show it which likely caused their demise or 'merger' which ended the brand name. As a car for the most part they weren't much worse than other vehicles of the time. I also can't say I've ever run across one with an original automatic transmission in the wild, but by the time I came along they were already mostly gone from the roads. I did grow up with an elderly couple across the street that drove a Caribbean convertible as their second car, but that one had a column shift three speed manual trans.

That Metropolitan was a true abortion of a car

It's just me or did you show a Plymouth in the Mercury portion. And really, 1970s cars in a 1950s video. Kind of sloopy.

so 70s cars were actually from the 50s?

I WAS going to say, pretty much ANY American car. Things haven’t changed a great deal, have they?

2:40 Packard Caribbean: NOT the Hotshot's successor! The companies were separate. IDIOTIC Packard 'info'; it had been long a luxo player, was losing in '50s with unloved redesign.

You don't even stay in the 60's decade.

Show me any V8 engine from the 50s that weren't gas guzzlers,then again gas was 25 to 35 cents a gallon. The good old days when most cars could pass anything but a gas station.

How many times was it needed to say the name of each car!?!

My neighbors had two Edsels, one pink and on black. Eventually they purchased newer models, the same colors. Talk about UGLY!! We had a white 1959 Chevy Impala 2-door with turquoise interior, beautiful!! Also the Chevy Corvair then and a '57 baby blue Ford T-Bird, which leaked oil profusely!! F-O-R-D meant "fix or repair daily!!

Terrible video filled with with errors inaccuracies. In the 1957 Turnpike Cruiser segment alone, later model Mercurys were shown and there was even a late fifties Chrysler product in it. Years of other makes other than the year being discussed were consistently shown. And what is a Vega doing in a video about 50's cars?!

What do the Vega, Mustang ll & Pacer have to do with the WORST Cars From The 1950s?? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Gee, maybe somebody just wanted to stretch their video out long enough to get one more stupid commercial in. Pitiful! That or they don't know WTF their doing.

The internal stupidity of American Automakers should be both a Legend and a Cautionary Tale - Well Studied by American Automakers. But it isn't ! The Stupidity of the American Autobuyer... likewise. What we have instead is Detroit trying to satisfy an insatiable monster it created ! With endless platform changes, and rushed to productions hardware - mostly useless and unreliable. Lets take two obvious examples. When Ford needed an alternative to the muscled up Mustang... they forgot it started life as a Falcon with a small 6. When AMC needed a small car they forgot the Rambler American.

1950's US cars look so bad compared to European cars.