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Show CONSIDER THE RADIATOR CAP Scene 77 THURSDAY, OCT. If made Once again it's New Car Season, but the latest models again are disappointing to an elite group of auto buffs, the lovers or radiator caps. Despite predictions, radiator caps 20 1977 A Westinghouse Hi-Re-Li-H- X Pump What Does It Do? It heats your home by extracting the heat from the outside air and putting in in the house. The only cost is a small amount of electricity to operate this economical extracting system. It? On Your Heating Bill. For More Information And Free Estimates " VALLEY' j? All kinds of Gall GONE ARE THE wings and spears, the dancing nymphs and leaping animals, that paced yesterday's roadsters and limousines down the high- fleet-foote- way. Gone but not forgotten. The golden age of radiator caps is remembered by friends and collectors of antique cars. These hood adornments, or mascots, are especially remembered by some 150 to 200 Americans who collect them. All are prized, the National Geographic Society says, but some collections of hundreds of radiator caps are valued at many thousands of dollars. Among the most treasured: The Cadillac "Herald" lifting his trumpet as though to toot clear the highway ahead.' This tiny figure is worth $1,000; only 50 were cast. FOR YEARS, the kneeling bowman of the Pierce-Arroaimed a shaft seemingly at any upstart auto challenging the route ahead. Only four of the famous mascots of 's yesteryear survive today: "Spirit of Ecstasy" or flying lady, used since 1911; the Mercedes-Ben- z circle and star, originally symbolizing the union of the two founding companies; the Jaguar's big pouncing cat, and the Bentley's "Winged B." Today's safety rules say radiator mascots are too dangerous to pedestrians, so these ornaments must be spring-loade- d so they bend backward, or they must be removed entirely when the car is in motion. Car buffs always unscrew and pocket their mascots when they leave their classic cars at the curb, and sometimes they replace the caps with much cheaper replicas. Even motome-ter- s, the glassed-i- n thermometers that registered the radiator water's temperature, are quickly swiped. w Rolls-Royce- PERSONALIZED and customized hood ornaments were popular from the first. The French glass company Lalique made translucent miniature statuary often illuminated by tiny concealed lightbulbs. Rickenbacker's squadron Spad, as a radiator ornament, was not much help to the short-live- d automobile named after the famed American ace. At other times, spinning propellers and even flapping g wings have failed to excite the public. Atop the world's first radiator cap, appearing in 1898, stood St. Christoph er holding a little boy on his shoulder, an appropriately protective symbol at the dawn of the dangerous auto age. Some say at an appropriate radiator cap symbol in this day of the automobile might be a chromium-plate- d book. . MASCOTS WERE both standard equipment and special accessories, such as the Bugatti elephant and the cobra that struck from Rudolph Valentino's Isotta. Many were birds: a quail for Ford, a flying goose for the Wills Sainte Claire, an eagle for the Mar-moa snipe for the Humber, a crested eagle for the Alvis, a heron for the Cadillac, an eagle with wings for n, fcCTDir L.L.W.E 'I In Door Unit or 852-174- 5 lIv 052-276- 4 i Day Or Evenings Preston, Idaho creatures graced radiat- ors. Rover had a stolid Viking, the Salmson a warrior brandishing sword and shield, the Armstrong-Siddle- y a d sphinx, and the Auburn a Mercury delivering a golden apple. Isotta-Fraschini- Yes, We Give You A Written Guarantee To Save 50 " History took a bow among radiator caps with the Mayflower of the Plymouth and the Indian chief of the Pontiac, both becoming more windswept as cars became increasingly streamlined. down the road. 's The "Flying valued at $1,500, and closely Man," resembling the famous Packard mascot of a winged racer holding a wheel in outstretched hand, a figure nicknamed "the doughnut chaser." Other mascots are more familiar, though few bring as much as $350 in trading between collectors. Many are creatures of speed and grace: the Dodge ram, the Ford and Lincoln leaping greyhound, the Packard curved-nec- k swan, the Hudson or Essex Terraplane's reposing griffin, the Hispano-Suiza'- s stork, the Graf und Strift's growling lion, and the Franklin's version of the king of beasts raised up and clawing the air. supplement. 1 "duescn-bird.- s THE LASALLE namesake, a tiny statue of the famed explorer holding a map in his hand and extending his hat to the undiscovered horizon just It takes the heat from the ajr the free heat both night and day. Even at zero 82 per cent of the heat that was in the air at 100 degrees is still there. Only a Heat Westinghouse Pump can get it out. If there were no heat in the air it would actually be 460- - according to scientists. Only the Westinghouse system can produce at these low temperatures. Don't be misled. Conventional heat pumps use electric heating coils, oil or gas to 10 degrees on down, while the supplement from is still getting the free heat from the outside air saving expensive heating costs. The Westinghouse system can produce comfortable heat from outside air as cold as 28 degrees below zero. After that built in electric heaters take over to Out Door Unit for the Bianchi, another eagle swallowing a snake. The Duesenberg lightning flash was generally looked upon as a surrealistic sleekness behind them. The worst has come true for the likes of Bill Mitchell, who as General Motors styling chief once complained: "I can't stand a hood that looks like a turkey roaster or a bed pan." eaf How Does It Do the Thomas Flyer, and, at least not are not coming back grandly enough for their admirers. 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