Is it pentastar or penstar?

[bull]

I always thought the little passenger's side fender emblem was called a pentastar (penta = 5, ie., pentagram, pentagon) or a star with five points, but every once in a while I see someone say or write penstar. I can explain the first option but penstar makes no sense to me. Is it a nickname, a mispronunciation, correct?

[Chryco Psycho]

Pentastar
representing the 5 Mopar divisions Chrysler, Dodge ,Plymouth, Fargo & DeSoto

[tecmopar]

Some people just don't know I guess, its Pentastar, as you said, 5 sided.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

There ia s repro company called Penstar Reproductions.....a play on the real word

[doctorpimp]

Pentastar.

[terrible one]

Pentastar
representing the 5 Mopar divisions Chrysler, Dodge ,Plymouth, Fargo & DeSoto

I knew it was pentastar but I didn't know that. Cool.

[bull]

Pentastar
representing the 5 Mopar divisions Chrysler, Dodge ,Plymouth, Fargo & DeSoto

I knew it was pentastar but I didn't know that. Cool.

I knew it represented the original five divisions but I could only think of four of the five. Until now I don't recall ever hearing of Fargo.

[tan top]

Pentastar
representing the 5 Mopar divisions Chrysler, Dodge ,Plymouth, Fargo & DeSoto

I knew it was pentastar but I didn't know that. Cool.

I knew it represented the original five divisions but I could only think of four of the five. Until now I don't recall ever hearing of Fargo.

  i was thinking the same thing  fargo

[bull]

Apparently Fargo was once Chrysler's line of commercial trucks, probably just in Canada:

http://www.allpar.com/old/fargo.html
http://www.allpar.com/model/truckbodies.html

[tan top]

thanks bull  , intresting , in one paragraph it said how old  GM car from the 60's early 70's  were so expensive  in TURKEY and  don't even think about old Chrysler cars. it makes you wonder how many rare mopers are sitting un discovered around the world ,example  that red daytona in Iran a few years back.

[Nacho-RT74]

Pentastar
representing the 5 Mopar divisions Chrysler, Dodge ,Plymouth, Fargo & DeSoto

NICE... I didn't know that... but I did know Fargo was part of Chrysler

Now there are not De Soto, Plymouth and Fargo, then we have Jeep and... Mitsubishi and Hyunday ?

Or Mercedes ? hehehe

[bull]

I just learned that the pentastar emblem came out after DeSoto went belly-up so DeSoto couldn't have been represented by one of the points on the star. http://www.allpar.com/history/logos.html

[hemihead]

I think Imperial maybe.

[Nacho-RT74]

almos had forgot that one... Imperial