It all started out rather innocently when GM styling chief Harley Earl became entranced by the twin tail booms on Lockheed's WWII P-38 Lightning fighter plane and sent his designers off to inspect one. It was first introduced the fins trend back in 1948 Cadillac.
This plane had later heavily influenced the world car design trend and brought fins to car as part of the design feature.
The 1959 Cadillac Eldorado were the largest and most outrageous ever fitted on a production car.
In my opinion, it was a very trendy trend back then, it mixed air plane style into the automobile and made it look more futuristic than how it should be, which was good. Also, as some of the manufacturer claimed, it helps by acting as a stabiliser to improve handling. And at the same time, it made the car looks more longer and more dynamic.
However, it is not likely to re-popular again since it demand a relatively large body, it create blind spot to the driver which may lower the safety of a car, it is far too exaggerate in today standard. All in all, it is still a good car design trend in car history that deserved a memory in our mind.
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