MIKE ROSS wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

 MR> "Charles Angelich" bravely wrote to "Roy J.
Tellason" (16 Nov 03 
 MR> 13:55:08)  --- on the heady topic of "Color TV (was music)"

 RJT> Huh? What the heck are you talking about here?

 CA> Tailfins ala '59 Chevy etc. A useless appendage that actually
 CA> could lift the Chevy rear wheels off the road at around 100mph.

 MR> There's a rash of "me-too" cars with spoiler wings over the rear
 MR> trunks. The trouble is they can never have any effect at US 55 mph
 MR> or 100km/h up here in Canada. Every time I see a car with those
 MR> ridiculously little mini-wings on the road I exclaim, "another car
 MR> that can't fly". ;-) BTW the damn things are just a nuisance when
 MR> brooming off snow and ice. 

So's the "luggage rack" on the trunk lid of my car.

Those "spoilers" are so silly-looking in some instances, 
particularly one model I've seen from time to time.  It's a little bitty
car,  I can't recall what kind offhand,  and that thing sticks *way* up
there.  I see one of those and say "Look!  It's got a handle on the
back of it!"     :-)

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