Optimistic drivers of the past imagined a future in which the stubby tail fins of their cars morphed into broad wings. (discovermagazine.com)
Prominent styling features were given a powerful frontal appearance with «forward - leaning» front end, long sculptured body lines, and redefined rear fenders that had more than just a hint of tail fins in them. (en.wikipedia.org)
We all know what a boon to the economy it would be — a Total Conversion; all of the Contracts, the Jobs created to fulfill them — the end of our need to «save energy», because it'd become so «clean'that we can have Big Air Conditioners, and Cars with Giant Tail Fins and Chrome Pipe Organ front bumpers once again. (realclimate.org)