Hood and trunk wreaths, crests and nameplates

Front fender nameplate, 1946 models

Front hood "V" and crest on a 1947 model

The same ... on the trunk

    
Hood and trunk emblems for 1948 (left) and 1949 (right)

Trunk badge of 1950 Fleetwood model

    
Left: 1953 hood/trunk crest [gold "V" not shown]
Right: flattened  1953 wheel cover crest [it is convex shaped to fit the center cone]

1954 [artist's view]

    
The crest on the left is from the rear fender of a 1954 Eldorado
The smooth one on the right is from the door saddle of the same car

In 1956 the "V" and crest became more elongated

   
(Left) Poor photo [from a video clip] of similar crest (as for 1954, above) and script
(Right) Catalog illustration of that ensemble; these appeared on the 1956 Eldorado Biarritz front fenders

   
The "V" and crest used in 1957

        
I've been told this item is from 1957;  can any reader clarify?
The "V" seems too deep compared to the official "V", above it (in B&W)

This gold-colored fender emblem is from 1957

This 1957-58 fender emblem is self-explanatory, right?

   
"V" and crest, combined with "Brougham" name plate
is used only on the 1957 Eldorado Brougham
[ I look at the LH image and I hear:  "...ET go home ?!?!" ]

[Above two rows] These are found on the rear fins of some 1958 Cadillac models
[ sorry for the poor quality Seville emblem image ]

1959

Wall plaque believed to be from 1959-60

1960 Eldorado Brougham [front hood]

   
1963 (left) and 1964 (right)

   
Side marker lamp and crest from the front wheel drive Eldorado
[ Left: 1968, right: 1970 - they are both actually the same size ]

Unidentified (I suspect early seventies)

Roof saddle side marker lamp
from custom 1976 Cadillac wagon

          
Five wreath and crest ensembles from the eighties and nineties; the second item, in
the second row (center),  was a gift item that could be used as a paper weight

   
Left: Nineties; right, unidentified (???)

 
Cadillac Cimarron radiator badge

Rarest among the rare, the radiator badge
from the Cadillac Solitaire V12 concept car

Y2K hood and trunk emblem

Interior crests, etc.

Seat side of Cadillac Le Mans show car

       
Early Eldorado seat backs have embossed or embedded crests: left, 1954, center 1956
On the right is the emblem affixed to the side of the front seat of the 1956 Eldorado

This circular emblem is from the seat  back  of a
custom 1957 coupe I  photographed in Scottsdale, in 1999

    
1950's instrument panel name plate.
Right: Eldorado, 1953; Left: Cadillac, 1958

Inner door panel emblem, 1957

1960 dash plaque (also used on front fenders of "Series 62" models)

VERY RARE 1960 nameplate used on dash of bespoke Eldorado Brougham

Front fender logo off 1960  Eldorado Seville and Biarritz models

Trunk and fender logo off 1966 Fleetwood Eldorado convertible

Seat side or sill plate emblem

   
Decorative stuff from the '80s and '90s

This unidentified item is from the 80s
(can anybody identify it?)

   
Left: fender nameplate on Escalade 2001
Right:  Nameplate on Escalade EXT, 2002

Grille and tail gate badge of the new millennium

Off-Topic crests and nameplates

Cars that achieve a high score in a judging competition organized by the
Cadillac-LaSalle Club, Inc. may be awarded a Senior badge like this one

 

 

Post-WW2 Cadillac horn buttons

Some of these horn buttons may be incorrectly identified; if you have a pre-WW2 Cadillac or
La Salle with a horn button that is not shown here or that is wrongly identified, please let me know

 

1   2a    2b      3     4     5
(1, 2a, 2b and 3) 1942-1947 [exc. 1947, style 6267 and 7533],  (4) 1946 (???), (5) 1949
[Photos 2 and 3: courtesy Jeff Hansen and CLC's 1942 Authenticity Manual]

This unique horn button is off the 1951 Le Sabre dream car prototype:
in the RED quarter are the words General Motors and in the BLUE quarter, Corporation

  10a 10b   11   12   13
(10a & 10a)  1953?, (11) 1954, (12 &13) 1955
[ the horn button on the 1955 Eldorado apparently is chrome-plated ]

14   15
(14,  15) 1956

      16    17    18
(16)  1957-58,  (17) 1957-58  center medallion, (18) 1957-58 Eldorado Brougham

  19    20    21
(19 & 20) 1959,   (21)  1960

     22    23   24   25      
(22)  1961,  (23) 1962,  (24) 1963, exc. Eldorado,   (25) 1963 Eldorado
[the 1963 horn buttons have rays radiating from the center - not easy to distinguish in these small, digital  images]

    26a  26b  27   28   29
(26a)  1964 regular, (26b) 1964 Fleetwood models,  (27) 1965,  (28) 1965 Fleetwood,  (29) 1966 Fleetwood
[telescoping wheel was introduced in 1965; knurled emblem is turned anti-clockwise to unlock]

 

Script items

Biarritz script emblem of 1956-57

 
1953 sail panel script

Plastic promotional item [10" long] 

    
Left: 1948 fender script.  Right, 1956 grille script (note the "loop" on the "d"; I believe this is the only
year and model on which it was written thus; if you look at it long enough, it will start to read "Cac-lillac"

1956 Cadillac trunk lettering

Individual block letters like these were used in 1956 and 1958 [see above entry]

   
Sixties

   
Script items of the seventies/eighties(?)

Gold trim packages became popular in the eighties;
here is one such script item from that period

Trunk script, 1955 Fleetwood 60 Special

The easiest Cadillacs to identify are the 1956 models;
each of them carries this plate on the RH side of the dash

    
Left: 1956 Sedan de Ville fender script; right: 1956 Eldorado trunk script

   
Fender script from 1957 Eldorado Seville (left) and Biarritz (right)

       
Misc. Cadillac script items

    
Left: fender badge, 1957-58 Eldorado Brougham; right: sail-panel badge, 1995 Brougham

   
Left:  trunk lettering and "V" from 1958 Eldorado; right Seville door badge, 1959 Eldorado coupe

This is from the 1962 Cadillac model with that name

         
Rare script and emblem from custom 1967 Eldorado coupe, designed by and built for GM stylist, Bill Mitchell

 

 

Emblems from other marques
built on the Cadillac chassis

Limited edition "Trump"
stretched limousine (eighties)

       
Three different S&S logo badges; the first is from 1961; the other two are from the mid-nineties

This logo badge replaced the traditional Cadillac crest on commercial
cars built by the Superior Coach Corporation,

 
PF logo badge on cars built by Pininfarina on the Cadillac chassis

(résumé en français)

Au cours des premières décénnies qui ont suivi la 2e guerre mondiale, la plupart des Cadillac ont arboré un large "V" décoratif en lieu et place de la couronne de tulipes ou de lauriers entourant le blason de la marque, couronne devenue familière sur les modèles d'avant-guerre(s).  Cet accessoire symbolise le moteur huit cylindres en "V" qui avait été adopté par la firme en 1915 pour tous ses modèles.

On trouvera ci-dessus quelques exemplaires de "V" et de couronnes arborés par les modèles d'après-guerre.  A noter que la couronne de lauriers, disparue dans les années vingt, fut reprise en 1963 pour distinguer les modèles carrossés par Fleetwood de ceux habillés par Fisher.

Mis à part le "V", la couronne et le blason que l'on retrouve sur le capot et le coffre des Cadillac d'après-guerre, ces automobiles arborent d'autres signes distinctifs et parfois leur nom écrit en lettres majuscules ou en belles liées. Je tâcherai de les ajouter ici progressivement car ces signes permettant souvent de distinguer tel ou tel modèle de telle ou telle année.