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RAT 5
What a mine of trivial wonders. Many thanks. Astonishing at the speed of recall & reply. Very humbling and senior memory has not yet set in, but you guys make it feel like it.
Whether all the names were after a/c, e.g. Mustang, is a bar-room discussion, but hey, what the heck.
Particularly when you see the horse emblem
But, there are some rumblings of the twin finned design of the late 50's and early 60's US cars being patterned after the twin-boom/tail of the P-38.
Off topic, but there is one SUV that I would never want because of it's name....Armada. It's huge and the namesake was summarily dispatched efficiently in the 1500's.