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Thank you! I think there is a typo though: "This hood ornament is from a 1954 Chevrolet police car (right image). On the right is the hood ornament from the DeSoto Diplomat". So, which is which?
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The "Viking" inspired ornament might instead be inspired by the Gaul.
They're wonderful - but almost all make splendid pedestrian disembowelers! The police car one looks particularly avenging.
"This hood ornament is from a 1954 Chevrolet police car (right image). On the right is the hood ornament from the DeSoto Diplomat"... The ornament on the left is from a 1957 Chevy Bel Air. http://www.flickr.com/photos/44323995@N03/sets/72157624804248321/detail/
This is a 54 Chevy Police Car
http://popuppistons.com/2342/1954-chevy-police-car/
@Kaiser Troll: The Viking inspired ornament is the emblem of The Rover Car Company, Vikings, and later pirates were known as 'Sea-Rovers'. Others of their cars carried viking ship ornaments, badges of a ship with dragon prow, red and white striped square-sail, its sides lined with shields. The founders of the company were a bit viking obsessed.
In 1948, they built the 'Land-Rover', and have been building them ever since.
Mapes Classic Cars has some good ones in their collection.
mapesclassiccars.com
http://mapesclassiccars.com/1941%20Packard%20DETAILS/1941_Packard_5314.jpg
http://mapesclassiccars.com/1935%20Ford%20DETAIL/1935_Ford_5320.jpg
http://mapesclassiccars.com/1941%20Lincoln%20DETAILS/1941_Lincoln_5335.jpg
http://mapesclassiccars.com/1941%20Buick%20DETAILS/1941_Buick_5306.jpg
I went and saw them in person recently. Beautiful cars. I wish I could afford one!
@urrik: just click on the links below, via 1 and 2
Whenever I'm at a museum or car show shooting content for Cars In Depth I always take time to shoot the hood ornaments, mascots or radiator caps.
You can see some of them here:
here,
here
and here
Also, just the other day The Truth About Cars ran my piece about Jaguar's "leaper", how Wm Lyons may have modeled the leaper on the greyhound Edsel Ford picked out for Lincoln and Changfeng Liebao's knock off of the leaper.
Nice gallery. Waited for Volga deer emblem))
Minerva cars used to have nice ones too
Some facts and pics http://minervamotor-car.50megs.com/custom.html
Some solitairy pics:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/nicolebphotos/art/6721407-minerva-vintage-car-museum
http://www.flickr.com/photos/janbarnier/5408529348/
It's also worth noting that many of the plastic and glass ornaments were illuminated from inside or underneath and glowed when the car was running at night.
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