[Jack Gifford]

I don't know John. Looks to me that your dad might have had the eight. According to Gunnell's Pontiac book all '38 sixes had the 'Pontiac' script on the hood sides by the headlamps.

[johnta1]

Thanks for those pics, Jack.

Here is another view with his good friend by the car:



I was going by the hood ornament, which your pics also show the ornament as being low for the '6'.

Pic too dark to see if it has the Pontiac script though.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by Jack Gifford

I don't know John. Looks to me that your dad might have had the eight. According to Gunnell's Pontiac book all '38 sixes had the 'Pontiac' script on the hood sides by the headlamps.

Jack, John,

I don't know where I got the idea from but I seem to recall seeing a late 30's-early 40's Pontiac that had some "skinny" front bumper guards that had their tops in the shape of a Pontiac Indian head. I thought it was on a 40 (41?) 4dr sedan car I had seen in a junk yard but when I went to that yard a few years later that car didn't have the "Indian head" guards.
That car also had an array of "silver gills" along the sides of the hood (which opened by lifting the hood ornament).

I may have seen an "Indian head guard" car at a POCI convention or at Norwalk (or I may have imagined it all).

Does anyone know if such an Indian head guard/trim was ever used?

[U47]

Hood ornament is different between sixes and eights, on the side panels the sixes have a shorter grille with Pontiac script near the headlamp, the eight's side grills continue where the script is on the sixes. On the bottom of the silver streak about even with the bumper blade the script across the silver streak says eight.
Eight;
http://www.collectorcarads.com/Picture1/DSC08647.jpg
six;
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Sedan_1938.jpg

Also below the script on the lower part of the silver streak ( down by the front bumper ) The chrome grille continues down where the six at that juncture the last lower part of the grille is painted.