thanks for the fin info!

["Currell Pattie" <currellpattie@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know, Bill. Those appendages on the backs of '67s and '68s are kinda 
close to fins! And they look great, the way they form that ridge...

Yeah, Harley Earl (the real one, not the actor in the Buick TV ads right 
now) hauled his designers over to Selfridge Field to get some inspiration 
from the P-38, which had little, if any, public exposure then. One of them 
was Bill Mitchell, who succeeded Earl. I had the pleasure of working with 
him in the early '80s, after he had retired, and had his own design 
consulting business. Selfridge is only about 10 miles from where I live.

In the "Fins Hall of Fame", I would put the Chrysler Corp '57s and '58s in 
there. And, of course, the first ones, on the '48 Cadillac.

Currell

Currell






>From: Billimp68@xxxxxxx
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>To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: IML: thanks for the fin info!
>Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:34:55 EST
>
>Hello all,
>
>The fins on the 1948 Cadillac were inspired by the P-38, Lockheed 
>Lightning,
>which was a twin engined prop fighter during WW II.
>
>Bill/Imp, 68's (not a fin in the bunch)
>
>