The "Moon Rocket" is a once-famous award-winning Ford Thunderbird with loads of GM parts and a truly one-off design.

Collectors have spent decades chasing the most desirable machines of the postwar boom, and a handful of 1950s models still change hands for serious money. The cars that hold their value best combine ...

Bird', was released in 1955, in part as a reaction to the Corvette two years earlier, though with an emphasis on the luxury over the performance aspects of the model. Marketing referred to it as a ...