Tailfins resurrected

Some more-experienced (older) readers may recall, among the very early Internet car sites, one named Tailfins which covered a variety of then-modern and classic cars, with special sections for slant six, V8, and 2.2/2.5 four-cylinder power. (Don’t look for tailfins-dot-com, it’s long since moved on to a domain squatter.)

The site was set up by Ed Dreistadt, with a good deal of material, tech and story both, from Gary Platz, Daniel Stern, and many others; and it has now been restored to most of its former glory at motales.com, from the original files. Email addresses have been stripped out and dead links removed; the forms are all nonfunctional. Otherwise, the material has been preserved and restored after over a decade of darkness at tailfins.motales.com. Material is organized by “clubs.”

The site was created before the first iPhone, so it’s set up for computer screens but does work well on tablets; it’ll be legible but quite small on a cellphone. Go there now.