Coke bottle styling is a style of automobile bodies with outward curving fenders with a narrow center. Notable automobiles with this style include many muscle cars such as the Pontiac GTO, Chevrolet Camaro, and Dodge Charge. As tailfins were influenced by jet aircraft of the 1950s, stylists such as Ford stylist Bill Shenk who designed the 1970 Ford Torino were inspired by supersonic aircraft. Aircraft such as the F-102 were designed with narrow waists and bulging forward and rear fuselages to conform to the area rule to achieve supersonic speeds.Studebaker introduced the Raymond Loewy-designed Avanti with pronounced Coke-bottle look in 1962. That began the trend of Coke-bottle influence on automotive design of the 1960s. Chevrolet first tried the coke bottle look on Bill Mitchell's 1963 Corvette Sting Ray as a styling theme since the area rule does not apply at road speeds.By 1966, A-body sedans and the Chevelle got a mid-riff pinch. The 1968 Corvette looked even more like a bottle bulging at both ends and a narrow middle.

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