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What year is this Radiator Cap/Hood Ornament from?


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Guest wallywimple

1931-32 is very close. The head on this one is not thrown back in the wind, but set straight forward and with a headband on and is a mermaid at the bottom.post-90283-143139307278_thumb.jpg

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Guest wallywimple

I just looked online at 1933 pictures and the four or so hood ornament pictures that I saw that were labeled 1933 had the head back or rather looking up towards the sky and not straight ahead.

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Guest DodgeKCL

It looks to be '33 but there is a difference between '31/'32 and the '33 PD. A side view photo would be better. In the '31/'32 version the torso of the Mermaid is shorter and lower. Her wings tend appear to be straight back. Her torso in the '33 PD is about twice as long and arched and her wings appear to bend upward. I've seen several '31/'32s with '33 PD caps and vice versa. There should be a swap site where you can put a photo of your cap and if it's the wrong year swap it no charge with someone who has yours. (The first version of the '33 Plymouth was the PC and it doesn't have a cap it has a fixed hood ornament for the first time.)

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Thats a good question because I have had both versions on PDs. But If anyone remembers the

photo I post awhile back of a 33 PD station wagon It was less stubby like a little skinnier taller

and the wings went up a little. I am positive cause it was bought new untouched and was

willed to me.

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Guest DodgeKCL

PD bumpers definetly have a droop in the middle. The earlier PCs are straight across and your station wagon appears to have a PC bumper although it is obviously a PD. Why? Possibly the chassis went to the body builder without bumpers. Bumpers were optional back then but most cars had them. Perhaps because of the 'chassis sans body' situation the bumpers were not part of the chassis package. Then when the station wagon builder ordered bumpers from a dealer, or even the factory, they sent the early PCs. Which will fit the PD brackets. It must of been quite the time trying to keep the various versions of the PC/PD separated for later repair parts. There are iterations of the PD and the PC that are crosses between the two. But most thankfully went overseas. The early PC mascot and the PD mascot are the same but the PD reverted back to the removable cap because the front of the PD is basically the '33 Dodge DP. Ironically you can remember this by simply flipping the 'PD' around to 'DP' and vice versa. The PC mascot is fixed to the rad shell and the actual rad cap is an internal cap like we have today just not pressurized. The earlier '31 and '32 caps for some unknown reason were lower and shorter. The problem today is the PD has the 'same' removable outside cap ,for the last time, and many have been incorrectly fitted with the '31/'32 version.

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