46x66 inch cardboard cutout of a flashy candy green 1950s car with that classic fin aesthetic. The flashy fin car shapes of the 1950s—peaking roughly between 1955 and 1961—are significant as the ultimate automotive expression of American postwar optimism, the Cold War space race, and the "Jet Age". Pioneered by Harley Earl at General Motors after seeing the P-38 Lightning fighter plane, these fins served no practical aerodynamic purpose, but rather functioned as a marketing tool to represent speed, luxury, and a futuristic, "longer-lower-wider" aesthetic.