RadiatorEmblems

This page is dedicated to pre war car emblems and interesting post war emblems I want to present to you the most beautiful and the most rarest emblems on this page. To my knowledge the first enameled radiator emblem was on the Georges Richard1903. From this time on thousands of these nice artifacts were mounted on the radiator to identify the car. If you send me a picture from your favorite emblems I´ll post them with a comment. ON THE RIGHT SIDE YOU FIND AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CARMAKERS.

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Feb 1, 2014

The 20 most beautiful car emblems of the world

After more than 20 years of collecting car emblems I thought it is time to show you my 20 favorites.
I choosed the number of 20 because there are 5 great automobile countries: USA, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and France. So every country is represented with 4 emblems in this list.
More than 95% of all prewar car emblems are from these countries !
Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and since I´m the beholder, these are my selections:

my favorites from the USA

my favorites from GERMANY

my favorites from ITALY

my favorites from U.K.

my favorites from France

For even more emblems from these and other car makers see the right column of this page ( list of car makers ).

Welcome

I started collecting radiator emblems in 1976. I remember this clearly because I had to give my first car to the local scrapyard. It was a still nice looking Volkswagen squareback. The scrapyard director was interested in my car and I was interested in the emblems of all cars in the field. So a deal was made. And I went home with a bucket full of emblems. Later I've been on swap meets all around the world. I started buying emblems on Ebay in 1999. From this time on prices became comparable for the first time. This made it possible for me to invent a five-star system to categorize emblems based on their rarity and value.This table is applicable for original emblems in a good but not perfect shape. Not for reproductions.

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	A common pre-war emblem from a mass producer like Ford, Chevrolet, Chrysler etc. Value: 0$ - 50$
	Still a well known car but no high production quantities. Value: 50$ - 200$
	Here it starts with the highly collectible emblems. Value: 200$ - 500$
	A very rare and very desirable emblem. You have to look years to find one of these. Value: 500$ - 800$
	An ultra rare piece. Prices are sometimes 800$ and more.

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Feb 1, 2014

The 20 most beautiful car emblems of the world

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