Tail fins (cars)

[vitanola]

THIS.

The mighty Chrysler 300 is the epitome of the Golden Age. Gold star to anybody that can ID the actor and TV show.

I thought that "Golden Age" cars had running boards...

Sorry Lizzie, not even close. For male overcompensation, nothing and I mean nothing, beats the Jaguar E Type! Freud could have written several volumes on that car and a certain P word symbol!

Well, male overcompensation has existed practically as long as there have been motor cars.

 

[2jakes]

I thought that "Golden Age" cars had running boards...



Well, male overcompensation has existed practically as long as there have been motor cars.

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Actually it’s been around for quite some time !

 

[GHT]

Actually it’s been around for quite some time !

Four Brake Horsepower, no fins though, unless they are hidden in the axle stubs like Ben Hur.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The ultimate Mine's Bigger Than Yours.

 

[HudsonHawk]

The ultimate Mine's Bigger Than Yours.

Some guys just have to have the biggest tombstone in the graveyard.

 

[Fading Fast]

^^^ As a fan of visiting old cemeteries on vacation - there is so much history there - it is amazing how what you showed above, is so typical. You can feel the "arms" race in many cemeteries.

 

[Stanley Doble]

A Name You'll Never Forget
Most Powerful Brass Era Car, pre-1916
1907-1908 Apperson Big Dick, 96hp For those with $15,000 to spend, Apperson would put their race engine in a 50hp Jackrabbit runabout to create the Big Dick. A 96hp racing runabout, the Big Dick actually had the highest advertised horsepower in an American automobile through 1914. It had open exhaust and a 6 1/4-inch bore and 5 1/2-inch stroke, for 675-cu.in. Amazingly, the company sold 15 of them, and that in the face of competition from Locomobile's own $15,000 short stroke 990.1-cu.in., 90hp Cup Racer (the factory claimed 120hp for the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup car upon which it was based).

 

[rocketeer]

No one has posted pics of the 1959 Cadillac so here's a link to a photo of Raymond Loewy's with the fins cut off.

http://www.carstyling.ru/en/entry/Cadillac_Coupe_de_Ville_1959_Raymond_Loewy/

 

[LizzieMaine]

Loewy had a thing for cars that looked like they were coming and going simultaneously, as witness his postwar Studebakers.

 

[David Conwill]

No one has posted pics of the 1959 Cadillac so here's a link to a photo of Raymond Loewy's with the fins cut off.

http://www.carstyling.ru/en/entry/Cadillac_Coupe_de_Ville_1959_Raymond_Loewy/

He turned a '59 Cadillac into a '62 Chrysler. A much uglier '62 Chrysler.

I guess I can completely understand why folks want to credit Bob Bourke with the '53 Studebaker. It would appear Loewy had about as much car-design talent as Frank Lloyd Wright.

 

[rocketeer]

He turned a '59 Cadillac into a '62 Chrysler. A much uglier '62 Chrysler.

I guess I can completely understand why folks want to credit Bob Bourke with the '53 Studebaker. It would appear Loewy had about as much car-design talent as Frank Lloyd Wright.

that is basically a 41 Continental made into a sedanca ? Some may call it a, 'ahmm' Classic car. Maybe from the so called classic car era but certainly not a classic

 

[2jakes]

"The ultimate Mine’s Bigger Than Yours “

Out in the west !

 

[rocketeer]

"The ultimate Mine’s Bigger Than Yours “

Out in the west !

Night of the Lepus

 

[GHT]

"The ultimate Mine’s Bigger Than Yours “

Out in the west !

In Russia, they have big spiders. Really big spiders.

 

[Stearmen]

Some guys just have to have the biggest tombstone in the graveyard.

Ok, that beats the E Type for best Phallic symbol! Should that be a capital P or a small p?

 

[Stearmen]

I am surprised no one posted photos of any of the Alfa Romeo BAT cars!

 

[Zombie_61]

Did someone say Bat cars?

Look at those fins! The horror...the horror...the horror...

 

[GHT]

That's an impressive array of Batmobiles, but isn't there one missing?

 

[Fading Fast]

Did someone say Bat cars?

Look at those fins! The horror...the horror...the horror...

Still think the original '60s TV series had the best Batmobile, despite almost everything else being cheesy wrong in the show. All these others looks off, forced, generic whereas the '60s ones has style and personality. But of course, this is all opinion.

 

[LizzieMaine]

And he doesn't even have a ration card on the window. Talk about operating outside the law.