Below is a picture of a car that might look like a Crosley, but it's not. It's really a '49 Datsun! The design first appeared the year before with a very slightly different grille. They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. Yet, Powell Crosley was not flattered. It's looks very close to his '46, '47, and '48 Crosleys. There were rumors before World War II, that Nissan had plans to break in the the American market and sell cars here. Powell Crosley was worried this was car they were going to try doing it with. He tried to stop them from building the car. But got no where. He did have a fairly substantial redesign lined up for the 1949 Crosleys. But, until that could happen he decided he needed to do something to set his '48 car apart from the near lookalike Datsun. That's why in mid '48 Crosleys got that ugly chrome bullet on their nose, and the horizontal grille bars.
And here is a '48 1/2 Crosley
Scott