Mike Phillips
01-05-2012, 11:01 AM
What do you think about this car?
This is a 1948 Cadillac Convertible, this is the first year for cars with fins...
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1325/1948Cadillac01.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1325/1948Cadillac02.jpg
First created by Frank Hershey, the tail fins were originally disliked and scorned by GM design giant Harley Earl.
Hershey persisted and (despite Earl's dislike for the rear fender design) won executive approval.
The first fins rolled out of the Detroit plant, in the early months of 1948. Because he was the head of the GM design studio, Earl unjustly received credit for designing the "tail fin" that adorned American automobiles for the next two decades. The tail fin was used on Cadillacs up to 1964.
So what do you think? Is this a cool car or not....
:)
This is a 1948 Cadillac Convertible, this is the first year for cars with fins...
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1325/1948Cadillac01.jpg
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/1325/1948Cadillac02.jpg
First created by Frank Hershey, the tail fins were originally disliked and scorned by GM design giant Harley Earl.
Hershey persisted and (despite Earl's dislike for the rear fender design) won executive approval.
The first fins rolled out of the Detroit plant, in the early months of 1948. Because he was the head of the GM design studio, Earl unjustly received credit for designing the "tail fin" that adorned American automobiles for the next two decades. The tail fin was used on Cadillacs up to 1964.
So what do you think? Is this a cool car or not....
:)