And I didn’t even really ask, just suggest. But our PS-Meister Barko/Barry Koch has realized what I now desperately want to be driving. I’ve had a thing for dorsal fins since I first encountered a Tatra back in the olde country. But little did I expect that Buick’s designers would keep my passion for them alive. It was worth waiting for; all of a few hours, actually.
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It looks a little tilted to the left.
Uggggggggghhhh. Do I detect suicide doors?
Oh sure, you like this, but Exner’s toilet seat was weird? 😉
What it really needs is a set of ’59 Cadillac tailights and we could have had the CHMSL 25 years sooner. 🙂
LOVE it and yes it appears to have suicide rear doors cool as.
Wow! I didn’t photoshop those door handles. Wonder if they were a faux modification? It would take some real customizing chops to move the hinges and get everything to line up, no?
1938. Lane Motor Museum.
Visibility out the back must be terrible. It’s cars like this that are responsible for the new rear-view camera mandate.
It wasn’t great….
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Wonderful PS work. Now if the owner of the actual car sees this, maybe he’ll decide to add an actual fin. (Could probably cut a ’59 Caddy fin to fit.)
I’m shocked that a real dorsal fin wasn’t offered as an option on ’59 Buicks. It would have been a much more practical option than the Big Chicken decal plastered over the hoods of late 70’s Firebirds.
Looks like something George Barris might have done. With today’s technology, it could probably be made out of some kind of composite material, and simply bolted on.
HA! Well done!
This would make a perfect Gary Larson cartoon, the shark family taking a road trip.
Paul, too bad you did not ask for this earlier seeing as you’ve always wanted one and it only took a few hours to get! 😉
Greak PS job, even have a shadow effect on the correct side and the color matches the top. Well done Barko.
+1 Great workmanship
At least it should drive nice & straight on the highway! Could be a bit of a challenge changing lanes, though…
Rudder effectiveness usually kicks in at around 50-60 knots, defintely needs a rudder on that tailfin. If Chrysler could do their activating spoiler in the crossfire…
That leads me to my next thought: Imagine rudders on a NASCAR track. The trim tabs would always be set to the left.
If only Buick had put this into production for 1959.
Then mounted a tail light on its tip.
The third brake light is born!
I saw this picture and I thought oh boy, did I miss that fin yesterday and this car is sporting one?
The apparent vinyl covering on it is a nice touch. Just the way a Lincoln designer would have approached it in the mid-late ’70s.
Nice Photo Shop work.
A much lower, shorter dorsal fin (one that didn’t rise any higher than the outboard fins) might actually have worked. I wish they’d have tried it.
You guys gave me an idea… watch for my next image… the centerfin gone wrong on another ’59 model…
Thank you for showing the wisdom of GM styling in dropping the third fin.
Actually looks like what was done was well done, but some time has passed
How utterly ridiculous. Everybody knows dorsal fins belong on the roof.
My car (as well as the previous two) have a dorsal fin on the roof.
I would totally drive that.
Now, someone mount up a speaker under the hood, so that I can play the Jaws theme loudly!
Oh, yeah!
Is it real or is it PS? Great work, Barko! Perhaps this model would have been known as the “Whale Shark” edition! 🙂
This is as funny as a Prius owner putting on Cragars.