Comments on: Radiator Mascots: Come Fly with Us https://velocetoday.com/radiator-mascots-come-fly-with-us/ The Online Magazine for Italian and French Classic Car Enthusiasts Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:45:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John Shea https://velocetoday.com/radiator-mascots-come-fly-with-us/comment-page-1/#comment-95468 Sat, 06 Sep 2025 20:55:55 +0000 https://velocetoday.com/?p=168405#comment-95468 The DeSoto brand was christened August 6th 1928 by Walter Chrysler .

]]> By: pete https://velocetoday.com/radiator-mascots-come-fly-with-us/comment-page-1/#comment-95461 Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:43:20 +0000 https://velocetoday.com/?p=168405#comment-95461 In reply to Frank Barrett.

From Charley Seavey:
A legitimate question about the DeSoto hood ornament, and I looked into it, even though it didn’t look much like painted chrome to me. The
answer is the face is lucite, not painted chrome. It does not seem to have been consistently so on 1950-52 De Sotos, but I found some
pictures of ones similar to the one in our picture.

]]> By: Charley Seavey https://velocetoday.com/radiator-mascots-come-fly-with-us/comment-page-1/#comment-95363 Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:11:58 +0000 https://velocetoday.com/?p=168405#comment-95363 James, yer lucky I recognized it as a bird. 🙂

charley

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