Show me: Your favourite and least favourite car design with tailfins

"KnowsAboutCars" (knowsaboutcars) 10/03/2013 at 17:12 • Filed to: show me

0

12

Curiously my both picks are from 1960.

There are many great tailfinned car designs but if I had to choose one over everything else it just might be the '60 Chrysler Newport/300F.

Then there's the '60 Dodge Matador/Polara. They really screwed up the design with those tailfins. The same model year Dart looks much better with full length fins.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > KnowsAboutCars 10/03/2013 at 17:21

0

'58 Packard: sorry, Packard, but no. Double-stack doesn't really work. When I find myself comparing you disfavorably to the '58 Rambler...

.. you done fucked up.

I don't know that I really have a favorite fins, so here's a '61 Starliner for giggles:

webmonkees > KnowsAboutCars 10/03/2013 at 17:26

0

Production or insane?

KnowsAboutCars > webmonkees 10/03/2013 at 17:28

0

You make the call.

desertdog5051 > KnowsAboutCars 10/03/2013 at 17:36

0

There cannot be a least favorite car with fins. Heresy I tell you. (Well, maybe my least favorite with Russians. See what I did there?)

Ghost Dog - For the kittens > webmonkees 10/03/2013 at 17:43

0

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/found-while-lo…

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

Didn't steal that. Really, I didn't. Coinkidink

Dakotacowboy > KnowsAboutCars 10/03/2013 at 17:53

0

Favorite: '55 Plymouth Belvedere/Savoy/Plaza, nice tasteful mild fins.

Least Favorite: 1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser, just horrible especially with the continental kit.

webmonkees > KnowsAboutCars 10/03/2013 at 17:57

0

(pre) Production insanity, then.

webmonkees > Ghost Dog - For the kittens 10/03/2013 at 18:02

0

It's okay, I stole them from jalopyjournal.. but..

!

I hadn't seen the front of that one. Yeah, this. So much this.

webmonkees > KnowsAboutCars 10/03/2013 at 18:08

0

Makes a lot of sense in the hot desert sun.

Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull > Dakotacowboy 10/03/2013 at 18:53

0

With Continental kit, yes, horrible. Without, horrible? We are no longer friends.

stuttgartobsessed > KnowsAboutCars 10/03/2013 at 19:13

0

I fear my favorite is a huge cliché...

Also this, if it counts. Which it should.

pdthedeuce > KnowsAboutCars 10/03/2013 at 20:07

0

when I was a kid , I called these "Batmobiles".