RE: IML: Fin trivia

["Donn Reese" <DReese@xxxxxxxx>]

Interesting how you negatively describe the fins of another well known marque.  It reminded me of descriptions in one of my books of the fins on the early '60s Imperials.  The author clearly hated fins in general and those on the Imperials in particular and similarly described them as "bad taste" even going so far as to say the 1961 fin was reminiscent of a sopository.

 

I suppose you could say "to each their own".  Fins might be one of those love 'em or hate 'em things.

 

Donn

1960 Custom 4dr....but equally enjoy the non-finned Imperials

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Corey

The reason, I think, that the caddy gets the nod as fin icon is because there are more of them (then and now) and even more so, because the popularization of the fins in retro was all based on exploitation of the garish extremes of bad taste and slathered-on chrome that they represented.  In that regard, the Caddy is surely the winner - it's a pastiche of inconsistent and garish adolescent fantasy elements bolted onto an obsolete platform.  By comparison, the 61 Imperial (like most Exner work) is all of a piece, an integrated and sophisticated form, with bright work where it accents the basic shape - still a lot by modern standards, but understated then - hardly the thing to exemplify overdone ugly.

 

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