Radiator Badges

Use this chart to help identify the make and year of your car from its radiator badge. Badges were easily swapped, so check the badge against the other clues. Click a make to go to its catalog page.

Continental

Round Continental Automobile radiator badge, Powerful as the Nation, 1933–1934
1933–1934
Round Continental Ace radiator badge, Powerful as the Nation, 1933
1933 (Ace)
Curved red Continental Ace radiator badge, 1933
1933 (Ace)

DeVaux

DeVaux radiator badge, 1931–1932
1931–1932

Durant

Durant radiator badge, 1921–1926
1921–1926
Durant radiator badge, 1928
1928
Durant radiator badge, 1929
1929
Durant radiator badge, 1930–1932
1930–1932

Flint

Flint radiator badge, 1924–1927
1924–1927
Flint radiator badge, 1926–1927 (Junior)
1926–1927 (Junior)

Frontenac

Frontenac radiator badge, 1931–1932
1931–1932
Frontenac radiator badge, 1932
1932
Frontenac radiator badge used on the 1932 Frontenac 6-85, with the name on a white banner
6-85, 1932
Frontenac radiator badge, 1933–1934
1933–1934

Locomobile

Round Locomobile radiator badge with crest, 1929
1929

Mason

Mason radiator badge, 1922–1926
1922–1926

Rugby

Rugby radiator badge, 1924–1925
1924–1925
Rugby radiator badge, 1926–1927 (four-cylinder)
1926–1927 (four-cylinder)
Rugby radiator badge, 1926–1927 (six-cylinder)
1926–1927 (six-cylinder)
Rugby radiator badge, 1928–1929
1928–1929
Rugby radiator badge, 1930–1933
1930–1933

Star

Star radiator badge, 1923
1923
Star radiator badge, 1924
1924
Star radiator badge, 1925
1925
Star radiator badge, 1926
1926
Star radiator badge, 1926–1927 (four-cylinder)
1926–1927 (four-cylinder)
Star radiator badge, 1926–1927 (six-cylinder)
1926–1927 (six-cylinder)
Star radiator badge, 1928 (four-cylinder)
1928 (four-cylinder)

Continental, Locomobile and Frontenac 6-85 badge photos: American Auto Emblems.

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