Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inside the Mercedes Benz dealership on New York's posh Park Avenue, cars shimmer, leather seats invite, and hubcaps gleam—just like you'd expect. But there's also something missing: the distinctive ...

Daughter: You should write a column about delightfully tacky hood ornaments. Me: Why? What did you see? I’m sure there are some doozies out there!

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 ...