Fifties Fins and painted

and painted

Honda persevered adding a targa top and automatic options

VW Golf James RuppertSubtitled: With Scirocco

These are the Lucky Seven

and marketing

Fifties Fins and paintedInspired largely by rapid advances in aviation technology, the automobile tailfin became one of the most potent symbols of 1950s American affluence and the optimism represented by the dawning Space Age. This colorful looks back at the greatest automotive styling craze ever features dozens of modern color photos depicting tailfins and the cars they adorn, from the first subtle incarnations to appear on the 1948 Cadillac to the nearly absurd variations