7 FORGOTTEN Supercharged American Cars That Beat Everyone... And Vanished

A supercharged station wagon beat a Corvette at a stoplight in 1957 — and that's not even the strangest story on this list. Between 1954 and 1958, four American car companies — all of them dying or desperate — bolted the exact same supercharger onto seven different cars that outran machines twice their price. Kaiser used it because they couldn't afford a V8. Studebaker used it because Packard's engine plant shut down overnight. Ford hand-built 15 supercharged Thunderbirds in a single day to qualify for NASCAR — then got banned before they ever raced. And Packard used it to build the fastest car it ever made, in the final year it existed. Every one of these brands vanished. Almost nobody remembers this happened. #ClassicCars #SuperchargedCars #AmericanCarHistory #ForgottenCars #NASCARHistory