Cars with Tailfins

[Misha]

Spent Sunday morning at a Show ‘n’ Shine event in the Cowichan Valley. While the skies looked threatening there was a great turnout of cars. As usual I was able to shoot some more fin photos…

The early 50s Cadillacs began the fin style with the influence of the WW II twin boom P-38 Lightening fighter aircraft.

Aeronautical flavoured design would last for a decade culminating with the 59 Caddy fins flashing into the skies.

The Detroit Big Three manufacturers all joined in the fin craze. The 55-6 Fords sprouted fins thru most of their lines as this Crown Victoria illustrates along with a continental kit.

Towards the end of the decade fins began to increase in size, as well as the chrome embellishments. The Chev Bell Air showed off a combination of chrome and aluminum fin flash on its flanks. 

1958 marked the high water mark for chrome as evidenced by the Buick tail trim. 

Cheers Misha