And therein lies the problem with the second big fastback revival of the mid sixties: the cars’ basic shape just didn’t lend themselves to fastbacks. It was a fad, essentially, harking back to the golden streamliner era of the thirties and the Tatras that ushered it in.īut the whole direction of car shape was changing: lower, longer, and most of all, much longer trunks. GM embraced fastbacks in a big way during the 1941 – 1951 period, but they soon gave way to the more popular trunked sedans and coupes. The 1950 is the successor to the 1948 Buick Special we examined a while back. Let’s savor this Buick and compare it to a few other big fastbacks to determine what works and what doesn’t, and why. And what pops up at the CC Cohort this morning, but one of my favorite fastbacks ever, a 1950 Buick, shot by Charkle the 2nd (I should know who that is in CC-speak by now). ![]() ( first posted ) Perfect timing: I was just about to write a piece on the challenges of the full-sized fastback, and how certain later ones in the sixties just didn’t work, like the ’66-’67 Dodge Charger and the Rambler Marlin.
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