I've been reading and looking through the book that my brother gave me for Christmas: American Cars of the 1950s, which is mostly a picture book. But the text contains lots of flashy words that the car manufacturers made up to describe their products in that decade -- words almost as outlandish as all the chrome and tailfins. Here are a few:
Ventiports (Buick; side "portholes")
FashionAire Dynastar Grille (Buick)
Invicta (Buick model name)
PowerFlite (DeSoto; automatic transmission)
Accuribbon (DeSoto; a type of speedometer)
TurboFlash (DeSoto; a type of V8 engine)
Astra-Dial (Ford; control panel)
Aquamatic (Ford; windshield wipers)
Styletone (Ford: two-tone paint)
Anatomic (Kaiser; overall design theme)
Bambu (Kaiser; vinyl interior trim)
Safety-Glo (Kaiser; tail-lights)
Uniscope (Nash; control panel)
Sky-Flow (Nash; fender styling theme)
Quadri-Jet (Oldsmobile; carburetor)
Memo-Matic (Pontiac; power seats)
How would you like to drive around in an "Invicta"? It sounds like a weird insect. (It kind of looked like one, too.)
(That's a tailfin up there from one of Elvis's Cadillacs that I photographed at Graceland a couple of years ago. Click it for additional awesomeness.)
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