1959 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer

Few cars embraced jet-age fantasy as boldly as the 1959 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer. Sitting atop the Dodge lineup, it combined aggressive horizontal chrome eyebrows over its quad headlights with compound curved glass that wrapped up into the roofline. But its defining calling card was out back: towering swept-wing fins that sliced outward, framing jet-nozzle round taillights embedded in heavy chrome housings. Inside, drivers selected gears through Dodge's space-age push-button TorqueFlite pod. When paired with the optional Super D-500 383-cubic-inch V8 pushing 345 horsepower, the Custom Royal Lancer turned every suburban boulevard into an aeronautical runway.