The pictures with today’s post are from last Sunday’s car show.  Today’s pictoral theme is hood ornaments as art.  The preceeeding hood ornament is from a La Salle.  The LaSalle was an automobile product of General Motors and sold as a companion marque of Cadillac from 1927 to 1940.  The two were linked by similarly-themed names, both being named for explorers – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, respectively.  I believe that today’s header shows a hood ornament of a Cadillac.

The following hood ornament is from a Diana.  The Diana Motors Company was an early United States automobile manufacturing company which produced automobiles from 1925 to 1928.  The St. Louis, MO based company was a subsidiary of the Moon Motor Car company.  The Diana featured a Continental straight-8 engine and was primarily marketed to women. The car was billed as, “The easiest steering car in America”. Prices for the 1925 model started at $1,895.

UPDATE:  I am in Monterey, CA for the weekend.   I’m visiting my Mon and Dad and brother Chris.  I other brother Frank is due in tomorrow.  So we’ll have an Axe Family reunion this weekend.