[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?