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I can't stand tailfins.
Yea, that's right, I said it. Maybe it's because I was born too late to have grown up with tailfins everywhere around. To the once-youthful eyes of this die-hard  enthusiast, cars bearing tailfins were old... but not cool-old, glamorous gangster-style like the late 1920s/early 1930s Fords in my family's garages. To me, cars designed in the late 1950s seemed typically excessive for excess's sake, even more slathered on already too much.
Of course, nearly 20 years of writing for the collector-car hobby's most venerable and respected publishing company has exposed me to a vast range of vehicles from the tailfin era, most of which I've come to deeply respect. But the ones from the tailfin era I personally covet most are the outliers, the Continental Mark IIs and Austin-Healey Sprites of the world, those cars whose styling spoke in reasonable, moderate tones rather than shouting, HEYLOOKATMEOVERHEREYEAWOWSPACEAGEFUTURE.
Like tailfins, other styling trends have come and gone. Whither goest opera windows? Hidden headlamps? Those accessory spoilers that seemed to perch on every trunklid in the 1990s? What design aspect or styling trend leaves you cold?
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