On my desk sits a hood ornament from a 1956 Buick Roadmaster. It’s shaped like a jet, sculpted in metal and draped in chrome, and it’s ridiculously large to have perched on the tip of the nose of a ...

May 3—They sit perched on the front of a car. Each represents a specific brand. At first they had a purpose. These days, they are mainly for show. A collection of car hood ornaments are on display at ...

Throughout the summer around the Northwest, car enthusiasts gather to show off their vintage wheels and meet other like-minded people. Many of the cars feature hood ornaments that are miniature works ...

Image Credit:Bene Riobó - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0/Wiki Commons. The 1950s and 1960s were a golden era when cars spoke louder than engines, wearing design flourishes that read like bold personal ...

if you're a car person, walking around anywhere during Monterey Car Week can surprise you with the beauty you find, whether it's at lavish facilities where luxury automakers host customers and ...

Equal parts beautiful and dangerous, the hood ornament reputedly dates all the way back to the chariots of Egyptian Pharaohs. As far as we can tell, there are five basic types of ornamentation for the ...

Many of us grew up watching hood ornaments bob somewhere near the horizon on the fronts of our parents’ cars. The winged motometer on my dad’s Model T and chrome star on my grandma’s Mercedes were two ...

Hood ornaments are all but gone in modern cars, but decades ago automakers had a bit more taste, adorning their cars with evocative symbols of speed and beauty. Cadillac, for example, had its Goddess, ...

Hood ornaments have always been awesome—we'll brook no argument about that indisputable fact—and they're even cooler when they retract. The redesigned Bentley Flying Spurhas just been teased with a ...

Hood ornaments are interesting, if kind of archaic things. Normally, they depict the logos and branding (however weird) of a given carmaker, though they occasionally make the leap to actual sculpture, ...

JoAnne Klimovich Harrop Monday, May 3, 2021 9:01 a.m. | Monday, May 3, 2021 9:01 a.m. They sit perched on the front of a car. Each represents a specific brand. At first they had a purpose. These days, ...