The winged motometer on Grandpa's Model T. The chrome star on Mom's Mercedes. For decades, hood ornaments identified the beginning of a car and the height of an automaker's branding. But styles ...

When the need for a hood ornament arose a few years later, Crosby was tagged back in to create the Flying B that translated the wings into three-dimensional space. Like most ornaments, the Flying ...

Hood ornaments were once an important status symbol for car owners, but today they're surprisingly uncommon after years of safety and performance concerns. advertisement. SlashGear.

Hood ornaments have largely faded into obscurity thanks to modern safety regulations and increasing production costs but here's 10 of the coolest pre-war examples. ... 1932 Lincoln Model KB Coupe.

To some, hood ornaments held an incredible amount of subtext. “’[It’s] certainly some kind of sex symbol, a symbol of virility,” sculptor Elizabeth Hansell told The New York Times in 1972.

10 Iconic Hood Ornaments and the Stories Behind Their Unforgettable Designs. From Rolls-Royce to Lincoln, we look back at an age when automakers leaned into aesthetics.

Hood ornaments were once an important status symbol for car owners, ... One model that still features them, Rolls-Royce's Spectre EV, ...