George Barris modified a GM dream car for shoe magnate Harry Karl with fighter-jet inspired bubble top.
- George Barris modified a GM dream car for shoe magnate Harry Karl with fighter-jet inspired bubble top.
- P-38 was GM styling chief Harley Earl's inspiration to introduce fins on cars, starting with the '48 Cadillac.
- 1948 Cadillac was first car with twin tailfins.
- Harley Earl took aircraft influences to the limit with his Firebird series of jet-turbine dream cars.
- Hudson's Terraplane evoked grounded flight.
- 1959 Studebaker Astral was a projected nuclear-powered flying car that could travel between planets. Studebaker was out of business 7 years later.
- 1955 Ghia Gilda was the last word in aero-dynamic, Italian-American, airplane-influenced, cross-continental design.
- 1948 Davis used three-wheeled layout like an airplane's landing gear to match its aircraft style.
- 1955 Lancia Aurelia Nardi Vignale Blue Ray 1 show car demonstrated European approach to aircraft-inspired design.
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