* 1955 – Tim Dunigan, American actor

* 1955 – Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist and engineer, invented the World Wide Web

** Tim Richmond, American race car driver ( b. 1955 )

* Tim Dunigan ( born 1955 ), actor

Tim Flock's 1955 Ford

Timothy " Tim " Dunigan ( born August 2, 1955, St. Louis, Missouri ) is an American actor who is best known for having played the lead role of Captain Jonathan Power in Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future.

Tim Richmond ( June 7, 1955 – August 13, 1989 ) was an American race car driver from Ashland, Ohio.

* Tim Holmes ( b. 1955 ), American sculptor, filmmaker and musician

In 1955 the Lees ' become parents to Tim Berners-Lee who is credited for his invention of the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989.

Entries in Turner ’ s race included Tim Flock, who had been NASCAR Champion in both 1952 and 1955, three time NASCAR Convertible Division Champion Bob Welborn, and Hutcherson.

* Tim Berners-Lee ( born 1955 ), British engineer and computer scientist, known for his creation of the World Wide Web

The team won the 1955 and 1956 NASCAR championships with drivers Tim Flock and Buck Baker.

1955 was a record setting year for Flock as well as NASCAR.

Lloyd Moore, who competed in NASCAR from 1949 – 1955, was born in Frewsburg and worked as a bus driver and mechanic in the school district for many years.

* Bill Elliott ( born 1955 ), 1988 NASCAR Winston Cup Series Champion with two Daytona 500 victories ( 1985 and 1987 )

* Bill Elliott ( born 1955 ), 1988 NASCAR champion

However, these cars lose their " sleeper value " due to both their rarity ( this series was highly luxurious ; it was made in limited numbers and examples are very expensive ), and the well publicized successes of Carl Kiekhaefer in NASCAR racing ( 1955 – 1956 ); though the car can be one of the creditors of the creation and popularity of muscle cars.

In 1951, he moved to NASCAR, where he was a very successful Grand National driver through 1955.

Stevenson also raced in two NASCAR events: one in 1955 and one in 1956, picking up a win at Willow Springs Raceway in 1956 driving a Ford.

* Bill Sedgwick ( born 1955 ), NASCAR driver

In 1956, he won the NASCAR Sportsman Championship, and was runner-up in 1955 and third in 1957.

William Timothy Cowlishaw (; born March 31, 1955 in Dallas, Texas ) is an American sportswriter for The Dallas Morning News, a regular panelist on the ESPN sports talk show Around the Horn and formerly the lead reporter for the ESPN2 racing show NASCAR Now.

The team dominated NASCAR Grand National ( now Sprint Cup ) ( at one point winning 16 straight races ), even though it only competed in 1955 and 1956.

Ken Bouchard ( pronounced BOO-shard, born April 6, 1955, in Fitchburg, Massachusetts ) is an American former NASCAR driver.

* 1955 – Keith Ahlers, English race car driver

* 1955 – Hideo Fukuyama, Japanese race car driver

On 19 July 2007, the Newport Pagnell plant rolled out its last car, a Vanquish S. Nearly 13, 000 cars had been made there since 1955.

* 1955 – Alain Prost, French race car driver

* 1928 – Don Beauman, English race car driver ( d. 1955 )

Brabham soon " seemed to merge into Cooper Cars ": he was not an employee, but he started working at Cooper on a daily basis from the midpoint of the 1955 season building a Bobtail mid-engined sports car, intended for Formula One, the top category of single seater racing.

He made his Grand Prix debut at the age of 29 driving the car at the 1955 British Grand Prix.

* 1955 – Ken Schrader, American race car driver

* 1955 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver ( b. 1918 )

* 1872 – Horatio Nelson Jackson, American car driver ( d. 1955 )

* July 13 – Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver ( d. 1955 )

In 1954 Citroën produced the world's first hydropneumatic self-levelling suspension system, then in 1955 the revolutionary Citroën DS, the first European production car with disc brakes.

American car manufacturers Nash ( in 1949 ) and Ford ( in 1955 ) offered seat belts as options, while Swedish Saab first introduced seat belts as standard in 1958.

The first race car ( in concept only ) fitted with a turbine was in 1955 by a US Air Force group as a hobby project with a turbine loaned them by Boeing and a race car owned by Firestone Tire & Rubber company.

The 1955 Citroën DS featuring powered inboard front disc brakes was the first French application of this technology, while the 1956 Triumph TR3 was the first English production car to feature modern disc brakes.

Under Nordhoff, production increased dramatically over the following decade, with the one-millionth car coming off the assembly line by 1955.

* GAZ-M20-Pobeda passenger car ( 1946 – 1948, 1949 – 1955 )

* GAZ-M20V-Pobeda passenger car ( 1955 – 1958 )

* GAZ-М72-Pobeda 4x4 passenger car ( 1955 – 1958 )

In 1955 DAF produced its first drafts of a car belt drive system.

Warner Bros. released the film on October 27, 1955, less than one month after Dean's fatal car crash.

Using the Orient Express as a plot device came from two sources: Fleming had returned from the Istanbul conference in 1955 on the train, but found the experience drab, partly because there was no restaurant car.

From the mid 1950s economy car competition had increased-internationally in the form of the 1957 Fiat 500 and 1955 Fiat 600, and 1959 Austin Mini.