Hood ornaments are long gone from most automobiles, a victim of pedestrian safety regulations keen on keeping people from being impaled by steel and chrome in the event of a collision.

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

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 ...

It’s the Spirit of Ecstasy, the hood ornament that adorns every Rolls-Royce model to come off the assembly line. A graceful figure with arms outstretched like wings, the Spirit is a kind of ...

Watch Travis Landry appraise a Mickey Mouse Hood ornament by Desmo, ca. 1934, in this social exclusive from Denver Botanic Chatfield Farms.

SANTA FE — “Hood Ornament,” a multigenerational art show curated by Charles Moore for Container, brings together 14 Black artists, including leading figures like Kara Walker and Shinique ...

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.

Almost nine decades ago, Cadillac had a hood ornament on its vehicles, and the firm introduced another one. The first one was a Heron, while the second was a Goddess, which was described as "the ...

Dodge built its first car in November 1914 and entered the truck market in 1917. It debuted a ram hood ornament in 1932, but the first Dodge Ram pickup truck didn’t arrive until 1981. These ...

The 1987 model was the first to offer a retractable Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament, which wouldn’t become a universal automatic theft deterrent until 2003.

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, but today they're surprisingly uncommon after years of safety and performance concerns.