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Car hood ornaments are a bit old-fashioned these days, but you can still find them on some luxury cars. These are the most famous pieces of hood decor ever.
The winged hood ornament for a 1930 Isotta-Fraschini 8A, which is very similar to the Packard mascot. The streamlined crane of a 1929 Hispano-Suiza H6B Cabriolet de Ville. The ferocious badge of a ...
Not all of Pontiac's hood ornaments showed the brand's namesake Native American chief, but together they tell a story of American culture and design.
Rolls-Royce has unveiled a smaller version of its Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament that will debut on its first electric car, the Spectre, in late 2023.
The Sphinx bonnet mascot first appeared on Siddeley-Deasy cars in the 1910s, with the company slogan something along the lines of "as silent as the Sphinx".
The old school styling cue was a hit with fans and it got us thinking about the golden age of hood ornaments. While they’ve largely fallen out of favor, hood ornaments can still be found on a ...
Here are 15 of the strangest bonnet ornaments coming up for auction. Includes: a squirrel, a snail, something fit for a horror movie and of course, many dogs ...
Mercedes-Benz Lets You Light Up Your Hood Ornament. By Matt Schmitz. ... Mercedes-Benz is a German luxury automaker with a diverse lineup of cars and SUVs. Its EQ sub-brand produces all-electric ...
The grimy Junkyard Princess, the broken wind-up crab toy crawling through the junkyard slush… and now this personalized Buick's hood ornament, soon to be crushed, shredded, and fed back into the ...
Luxury car firm Bentley is recalling hundreds of vehicles over fears that its "Flying B" hood ornament could impale pedestrians. The recall affects 620 cars in the U.S. and Canada and a total of ...
The car’s hood consists of an inner and an outer panel. ... A hood may sometimes contain a hood ornament, hood scoop, and/or wiper jets. Hood are typically made out of steel or aluminum, ...
A closer look at the hood ornament of a 1913 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost. A 37-year-old Portland man was arrested in connection with the vandalization of a rare Rolls-Royce in Portland Saturday.