Hood Ornaments

Last year I did a post on the Concours D'Elegance of Texas. My husband and I went to the show again this year and though there were some cars that returned, there were many new cars in the show too. As I was looking at all the cars on display I was drawn to the cars that had cool hood ornaments.

Few cars have hood ornaments any more! Some have medallions and they can be colorful and very decorative, but they just don't have the same impact as an ornament. Many years ago we bought a used 1995 Jaguar Vander Plas and it had a great hood ornament. With that car we figured out why car companies stopped putting hood ornaments on cars, because creepy people loved to steel them.

A Jaguar hood ornament and plaque like the one that was on our old Jag.

One of the first Rolls Royce Hood ornaments.

The new hood ornament on the Rolls Royce is retractable. Very smart!

The early Corvettes did not have hood ornaments, but they had a very cool medallion. This was my favorite year of the Corvette. I am not a fan of any corvettes after the 60s. To me they ruined the style and the back end of the new cars are hideous.

The older sports cars at the Concours all had medallions, Porsche, Ferrari, Alpha Romoe, and Lotus. I guess if you have one of these cars you are more interested in what is under the hood than what is on on the hood.

The older cars and at the Concours like, Rolls Royce, Buick, Nash, Franklin and even the Good Humor Ice Cream truck all had great hood ornaments.

 For most of these cars it was all about the way they looked on the outside. These cars were like pieces of art and they most definitely were head turners!