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 ...

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 ...

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 change ...

From Rolls-Royce to Lincoln, we look back at an age when automakers leaned into aesthetics. Hood ornaments are long gone from most automobiles, a victim of pedestrian safety regulations keen on ...

It was an Englishman who had the distinction of being the first person to put a mascot on a vehicle, a bronze statuette of St Christopher, patron saint of travelers, on an 1896 Daimler. Hood ornaments ...

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 ...

Mascots, more commonly known as hood ornaments, have just about all been relegated to a dusty shelf in the garage of automotive history, but in the vintage and classic eras and up into the 1950s and ...

Is it called a hood ornament or a mascot? Actually, they are somewhat the same. The term "mascot" appears to be favored more in Great Britain and Europe, while in the United States, "hood ornament" is ...

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 ...

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 ...