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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...