As far back as the 1920s, certain models of car have had distinctive hood ornaments. In the olden days, hood ornaments were used to cover up the jutting point of a car's radiator cap with something a ...

Inside the Mercedes Benz dealership on New York's posh Park Avenue, cars shimmer, leather seats invite, and hubcaps gleam—just like you'd expect. But there's also something missing: the distinctive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Original Caption) 1938-Close-up of the very front end of a 1938 Cadillac La Salle. This smaller counterpart to the Cadillac ...

Unruly teens have often found solace in ripping hood ornaments off their high-school principals’ sedans. Lucky for principals now, hood-mounted crosshairs, half-naked flying ladies and big, leaping ...

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 ...

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 ...

We saw many gorgeous cars at this year’s Concorso d’Eleganza, the most prestigious automotive competition in the world. Of course, it’s the cars themselves that took center stage, but I always find ...

American automobiles of the 1950s had more elegant chrome that included the hood ornament, as well as more glass and more horsepower. The chrome was called “brightwork.” So if you would ever forget ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Companies have spent billions of dollars developing their images. Done well, a will be seared into one's mind forever. The is one example. The font for is another. The photo gallery above contains ...

If there's one feature I miss from old cars, it's the hood ornament. Long gone are many of the miniature sculptures from the noses of cars, both for reasons of design as well as pedestrian safety.

Even though I’m not a car buff, oldtimer car shows and exhibitions attract me. One reason is hood ornaments—a distinctive aspect of each automobile that beautifully combines art, design and typography ...