I'm often curious about obscure cars with attractive names. The Diana is an example, me having once had a splendid affair with a Diana (woman, not car) who'd been married to a famous NHL hockey player, and my pal Mel Satok being happily married to a Diana. Agreed, that's a silly reason for being curious about an automobile, but when I spotted a Diana at Vancouver's Steamworks Concours I couldn't resist taking a photograph. The owner having left for a coffee (not many spectators were curious about a boxy obscure sedan), I failed to learn much until a recent Google search informed me that the car was the product of Diana Motors Company, a subsidiary of the Moon Motor Car Company, which built cars between 1905 and 1929. Apparently it was designed with women buyers in mind, having a cameo-like Diana badge atop the nickel-plated radiator shell, a seductive gold-colored woman as its hood ornament, and a compartment for the golf clubs of 1920's liberated females. The Diana, however, was an "assembled" car, meaning that it was manufactured from components largely produced outside the company. It featured an eight-cylinder Continental engine that would have been lady-like smooth in operation. This marque didn't last long (nor did my affair) but Continental-built engines still power light aircraft.