Comments on: Learn to design tailfins, 1946

By: juepucta

juepucta — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:27:00 +0000

you too can earn your degree at the Bruce Wayne Technical Institute!

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:14:00 +0000

Is that car coming or going?

By: GlenBlank

GlenBlank — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:14:00 +0000

The odd part is that, even though this looks at a glance like a classic rear view with tail fins, that’s actually the front of the car, and the outboard fins are… canards? The rear has a single central rudder.

Also, the nose badge is… a winged skull?

By: sockdoll

sockdoll — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:49:00 +0000

“Be a Highly Paid Auto Stylist”

…or a poorly-paid science fiction illustrator.

It says that the director of the home-study course was Harley J. Earl. I doubt that he had much hands-on involvement with the correspondence lessons, but whatever your opinion is of tail fins this guy was the real deal. He was first trained by his father, who was a classic coach builder who made the transition to custom automobile body design and manufacture. The younger Earl was an industrial designer who pioneered modern automobile design techniques.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_Earl

By: stuck411

stuck411 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:22:00 +0000

It looks like a Green Hornet or Batman concept car. I want…. TAIL FINS!

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:03:00 +0000

Wait ’til the guys and gals at conceptart.org see this

By: Freddie Freelance

Freddie Freelance — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:00:00 +0000

I want this guy to design my next car!

By: Lobster

Lobster — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:29:00 +0000

Do they teach you how to fix split antennae?