Hood ornaments are long gone from most automobiles, a victim of pedestrian safety regulations keen on keeping people from ...

Some of these could be made to light up. This train motif lasted through much of the '40s, with one of the more iconic hood ornaments (shown above) appearing on virtually every model in 1948 ...

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 ...

We’ll chalk that statement up to the 70’s being a wild time, but automakers have turned out some iconic hood ornaments over the decades. Rolls-Royce’s Spirit of Ecstasy is probably the best ...

You might remember Cadillac’s three-dimensional crest, however, the American brand also created two distinctive hood ornaments with the iconic flying Goddess and a heron in the 1930s.

The hood ornament started when radiator caps were located on the outside of the car, rather than in the engine compartment. Companies started making the cap the visual focal point, giving rise to ...

and there are two variations of this hood ornament. There's one like this, with the chrome plated finish. And then there's also a painted example that would have had the iconic red shorts ...

From the decision to change the Jaguar brand font and overall look of its name to making the iconic leaping animal on its hood ornaments look like it’s disappeared, the reinvention spurred more ...

Check out the stories behind 10 of the most iconic hood ornaments of all time. The robed lady arched forward at the leading edge of a Rolls-Royce hood might seem as though it has been there ...