![]() The viewing had significant impact on the designers, and was the inspiration for Hershey’s tail fins on the 1948 Cadillac. Earl brought along his top designers including Bill Mitchell and Frank Hershey. In the late 1930’s Harley Earl received special permission from the US Government to have sneak peek at the newly developed Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Consequently, I started doing my own digging and I ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole the result is this article on GM’s body interchangeability program. There are few historians that have delved deeply into this time period of General Motors. Coincidentally, when JP originally published this article I had just finished reading Thomas Bonsall’s book The Cadillac Story, which discusses some of those changes in finer detail. His excellent two-part article looked at the post-war changes occurring at General Motors that seemingly put its body sharing program in turmoil. Last year, CC’s JP Cavanaugh examined the mystery of the 1949-50 GM B-body.
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