Great year for watches too: Mido Commander first appeared - still in production, also the original Longines Conquest, again still in production to the same visual design.

I would have liked to add the Hamilton Ventura, but that first appeared in 1957. Favourite of Elvis and Rod Serling. Designed by Richard Arbib who was also behind a lot of the space-age cars of the era.

Wow!
The car illustrations are outstanding.
Funny really, the majority of illustrative work I've been doing in the last year or so seem to be in this style.
It's good fun for me but in stark contrast to the ultra forward looking times this style seems to depict these days, it also outlines the backward gazing nature of our culture at present.

Awesome thread Oliver!

And while American companies were still designing huge full-size cars up through the '70s, most, like Ford with the Falcon and Chevrolet with the Corvair in 1960, started to take cues from the small European cars in the sixties.  I think everyone tired of the ostentatious fins rather quickly and they had pretty much disappeared on American cars by 1963.  But then, strangely, Mercedes carried the fins to 1968 on their W110.