While someone looking to personalize their car today might opt for a set of custom rims, in the ’20s and ’30s, you made your vehicle your own in a different way — via a hood ornament. “They were kind ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Hood ornaments started as a disguise for homely radiator caps more ...

Hood ornaments have mostly gone the way of the dodo bird. Part and parcel of a bygone age, they jutted proudly off an automobile's front and cut through the air like the carved figureheads on the bows ...

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 ...

Making functional items look visually appealing has been something we, the people, have been doing for decades. Don't believe me? Well, go ahead and take a look at car hood ornaments. Throughout the ...

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.

Roger Biermann is an automotive journalist of 13 years and has been the Managing Editor at CarBuzz since 2021. With no formal post-high school education, Roger launched his career as an automotive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...