Why Fins are crucial to good automotive design.

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I have an idea that Virgil missed a little in the wind tests. I have a '61 
Chrysler Newport 2-dr. hdtp with the canted fins and have found out that at 
about 75mph the back end starts to have a small but noticable sideways sway.  A 
friend had a '60 Windsor 4-dr and it swayed also. I have driven a '62 that is 
the same car without the fins and it did not sway at all.  All Imperial fins 
are pretty much straight up and I have not seen this trait in them. I wonder if 
a '58 Studebaker President 2-dr hdtp which has a very similar fin does the same 
thing?
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> From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2006/12/17 Sun AM 12:32:37 EST
> To: IML <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: IML: Why Fins are crucial to good automotive design.
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> Read this and tell me it isn't a rich peek into late
> 1950's finned automotive design thinking straight from
> the pen of the Master:
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> http://www.imperialclub.org/Articles/57Styling/index.htm
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