RE: IML: Fin trivia

[michael wolf <flowekim@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have always had Imperials, 63 or newer, but keep my
Cad around because,   sometimes you feel like a
fin-sometimes you dont. Sorry, just could not resist.

Mike


--- Donn Reese <DReese@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>  
>  
> 
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> 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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