Why Cobra?Have no idea, it's probably a Hollywood special but CC made one with a big fin on the back named aptly enough: Cobra..
Beats me, I suppose they felt the fin gave it a menacing appearance. I think it more silly. Americans had an obsession with fins back then..Why Cobra?
Built in the early 1950's it was a decadent model made to turn heads. It sported a Cadillac engine. In an era when wood was king, it was an early use of fiberglass for the fin and deck section. Not many made and not a whole lot of them still in existence.Dunno' about the name: but I think the zany thing is pretty cool lookin':
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My family had a Plymouth like that when I was a little boy. With a push button transmission, it was a really neat car. Also for a short while I owned a red 1960 Impala convertible which had fins, but they were of the horizontal variety. I agree many of these finned products were things of beauty. Set them apart from the competition. Now all cars pretty much look alike. I once could ID a car a half mile away. Now not only are they non-distinct, curiously, many times don't have a nameplate on them at all.Dunno' about the name: but I think the zany thing is pretty cool lookin':
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But, then again I like the '58 Fury:
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If you consider a CC Cobra vanilla, then what do you consider chocolate?Vanilla vehicles, all of them.
Especially today's SUV's.....From any distance you can't tell one from the other. In fact they are so similar, it makes we wonder if the same designers created them all and added minor detail changes to make them seem different. And all have the same price tag as well.....hmm.....My family had a Plymouth like that when I was a little boy. With a push button transmission, it was a really neat car. Also for a short while I owned a red 1960 Impala convertible which had fins, but they were of the horizontal variety. I agree many of these finned products were things of beauty. Set them apart from the competition. Now all cars pretty much look alike. I once could ID a car a half mile away. Now not only are they non-distinct, curiously, many times don't have a nameplate on them at all.
Jap cars were crap. Nobody wanted them. Then, the American cars went downhill, while at the same time Jap cars got better. So, american fools bought the jap cars.Especially today's SUV's.....From any distance you can't tell one from the other. In fact they are so similar, it makes we wonder if the same designers created them all and added minor detail changes to make them seem different. And all have the same price tag as well.....hmm.....