Tail Fins: Six Things You Didn't Know About The Iconic Automotive Shape
I recently attended my first Tail Fin show. I don't know if this is one of the rites of passage that, in Detroit, anyway, signify when a boy truly becomes a man. In fact, I'm pretty sure it isn't, since I am middle-aged.
But I did feel just a bit more masculine after coming in such close contact to all of those flying, aggressive-looking tail fins (some of which look like they could have been used as weapons), especially since they were all attached to enormo, manly-looking vintage cars from the 1950s and '60s.
Tail Fins on a 1957 CadillacThe show was held at the Automotive Hall of Fame, in Dearborn, Michigan, right next door to the famous Henry Ford museum. The Hall began holding an annual car show in 2006, with a different theme each year, and the theme of this year's extravaganza was "Fabulous Fins":
Thirty vintage rides with eye-catching fins were on display, including a 1956 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, '57 Chevrolet Bel Air, '60 Desoto Fireflite, '60 Chrysler Imperial Crown Convertible, '58 Ford Thunderbird, '58 Packard Hawk, '58 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special, '57 Ford Fairlane 500 Convertible and a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz. See full list at the bottom of this story.
And I'm here to tell you, some of these fins were so high and long and "wing-like" that that it appeared they could help launch the cars into the clouds. And that seems as good a place as any to start with my below list -- let's call it "Six Interesting Things About Tail Fins That You Might Not Know."
Tail Fins: Six Things You Didn't Know About The Iconic Automotive Shape
But I did feel just a bit more masculine after coming in such close contact to all of those flying, aggressive-looking tail fins (some of which look like they could have been used as weapons), especially since they were all attached to enormo, manly-looking vintage cars from the 1950s and '60s.
Tail Fins on a 1957 CadillacThe show was held at the Automotive Hall of Fame, in Dearborn, Michigan, right next door to the famous Henry Ford museum. The Hall began holding an annual car show in 2006, with a different theme each year, and the theme of this year's extravaganza was "Fabulous Fins":
Thirty vintage rides with eye-catching fins were on display, including a 1956 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, '57 Chevrolet Bel Air, '60 Desoto Fireflite, '60 Chrysler Imperial Crown Convertible, '58 Ford Thunderbird, '58 Packard Hawk, '58 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special, '57 Ford Fairlane 500 Convertible and a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz. See full list at the bottom of this story.
And I'm here to tell you, some of these fins were so high and long and "wing-like" that that it appeared they could help launch the cars into the clouds. And that seems as good a place as any to start with my below list -- let's call it "Six Interesting Things About Tail Fins That You Might Not Know."
Tail Fins: Six Things You Didn't Know About The Iconic Automotive Shape
