heck of a private collection of hood ornaments

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10237758815642442&set=pcb.4568948576669274

Lalilique hood ornament

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automobilia/our-two-cents-7-of-our-favorite-pieces-of-automobilia/

the Pontiac Parisienne hood ornament. Really damn weird

 https://www.theautopian.com/the-pontiac-parisianne-hood-ornament-kinda-weirds-me-out/

gets right to the heart of the grease monkey, knuckledragger, gear head ethos

https://www.meterperion.com/products/rat-rod-hot-rod-hood-ornament

cool radiator cap

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=933915448090956&set=pcb.1452170028697248

the magical hood ornament of Grindelwald's car in the newest Fantastic Beasts movie

 

really, Sara emailed me for help about the hood ornament she has. I do not understand why. I already posted the identification guide, AND IT IS IN THERE. Good god a-mighty, why do people waste my time after I did all I could ALREADY?

Sara, with man hands and no thumbnail, annoyed me by wasting my time, SO I hereby shame her. Yes, I get petty when annoyed by hood ornament junk that I already posted, and morons that waste my time. 

see what I mean? I already did my part. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/hood-ornament-identifiaction-guide.html

THEN I labeled the post "Hood ornament identification guide, if it ain't here, don't ask me. I don't know. NO, I am not going to identify your garage sale find, No, I don't know what your hood ornament is worth. Look on Ebay."

I'll go ahead and repeat, again, the important part "NO, I am not going to identify your garage sale find, No, I don't know what your hood ornament is worth. Look on Ebay."

here is a NOS example

here is how damaged the junk yard, garage sale, or whatever, one Sara has is 

and it is missing the rear trim piece that goas the length of the hood

see how busted that clear plastic piece is? AFU

it's been years since I posted a photo of display cases of hood ornaments, today I finally learned that they are in the AACA in Pa

so, from now on I can tell those who have a question about hood ornaments to look in the AACA museum

rare Griffin hood ornaments from 1930 -31

https://www.facebook.com/groups/197491484165115/permalink/831746790739578

1927 Quota Trophy given to salesmen for meeting the sales quota. A replica model of Charles Lindberg's Ryan Monoplane "Spirit of St. Louis". The wheels and propeller turn, nickel plated zinc by the Ternstedt Mfg. Company

https://www.facebook.com/groups/197491484165115/permalink/832189147362009

https://rmsothebys.com/en/home/lots/ma21?&utm_source=rmsothebys.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MA21&utm_term=MA21_BiddingOpen&_cldee=amJvaGprbEB5YWhvby5jb20%3d&recipientid=contact-96fb7c0b26aaeb11825e000c2971a03a-abba3da9882b4f5b979a245be3603bc8&esid=5bfaa31d-8936-ec11-8276-000c2971a03a#?SortBy=Default&SearchTerm=&Category=All%20Categories&IncludeWithdrawnLots&Auction=MA21&OfferStatus=All%20Availability&AuctionYear=&Model=Model&Make=Make&FeaturedOnly=false&StillForSaleOnly=false&Collection=All%20Lots&WithoutReserveOnly=false&Day=All%20Days&TimedOnly=false&OneHubLinkOnly=false&InspectionReportOnly=false&AuctionedStatus=All%20Lots&page=4&pageSize=40

gee gaws, doo dads, trophys and hood ornaments (thanks Steve!)

 

https://fineart.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?No=48&N=3166+793+794+792+2088+4294944956

unusual radiator ornament, both a light, and a thermometer. It was wired to light up the whole motometer, and shine illuminate the green and red lenses on each side, and also light up the manufacturer of choice nameplate on the front

The Moller Motor Car Company of Hagerstown Md. used them on most of their vehicles from 22 to 29 including the taxi.

Moller was the re-organized Crawford car company, and made the Dagmar, with the unusual Gidelite hood ornament and the Neville “More Room” steering wheel

https://www.ebay.com/itm/254180334591?ul_noapp=true&fbclid=IwAR0jUdCH24jTfw8ae7bCBVKSqn4mAf_5ZbNmv_TFnWWT8ma-sgRrEybGnrE
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/original-gidelite-packard-motometer-1912228169


the American Bicycle Co., successor to the Crawford Bicycle Co., sold their factory to the associated Pope Manufacturing Co., who used it to manufacture the short-lived Pope-Tribune, and the former Crawford Bicycle plant was sold to the Montrose Metal Casket Company, who closed down their Hagerstown operations in 1913 and the vacant facility was purchased by the New York and Hagerstown Metal Stamping Co. in 1914 in order to produce munitions for the British Army.

That firm was reorganized as the Maryland Pressed Steel Co. on March 30, 1915, and within the year it had been purchased by the Poole Engineering and Machine Co., who held $17 million in government munitions contracts, but in a year, they introduced the Bellanca C.D., a small 35 hp biplane designed by the legendary Italian engineer Giuseppe M. Bellanca, in the hopes of getting a lucrative US government contract for its manufacture.

However, the signing of the Armistice brought the War to an end in November of 1918 and along with it Maryland Pressed Steel’s lucrative ammunition contracts.

And that is why it's tricky to get into business. Things change mighty fast and what you are making might become a fad, whose time is up, like bikes, or short lived, like the Pope Tribune, or get into contract work, which is often very short sighted and done with quickly.

Maryland Pressed Steel began the manufacture of PASCO and National wire automobile wheels under license starting in mid-1919, saving the firm from insolvency, at least for the time being. Unfortunately the post-war recession affected the sale of new automobiles during 1920 and 1921, and an absence of orders for the firm’s wire wheels forced the firm into bankruptcy.

In 1922 Poole Engineering sold the Maryland Pressed Steel Works to R.J. Funkhouser Co., who subsequently sold it to Moller. Shortly after Moller moved into the old Bicycle Works, he reorganized the Crawford Automobile Company as the M.P. Moller Motor Car Co.

And that's how Moller began making Dagmars.

http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/m/moller_mp/moller_mp.htm

this has a large gap between the expectations implied by the advertised name and hood ornament... and the car

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/automotive-art-42-andrew-fare.html

1926 Pontiac chief hood ornament patent

http://www.carstyling.ru/ru/entry/Pontiac_Vozhd_krasnokozhih/images/7721/

if you want to know if people appreciate your photography, google one of your photos, and see how many websites have used it.

take this image for an example.

I saw this Pontiac woody at Wavecrest 2010, as Wavecrest is THE woody car show on the West Coast. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/10/pontiac-hood-ornaments-consistantly.html and it is the right place to go to photograph woodys, old car radios, old car speedometers, and old car gear selectors, and hood ornaments.

This photo shows up on 6 dozen other websites with a Google image search

Not a single website here ever contacted me to ask for permission, or if I minded them using the image. Not even to toss a compliment, and not a single one gave a link to my blog as the source.

So, if any one of you are going to upload good photography or art to the internet, and want to be credited as the photographer, water mark your photos. Evidently no one respects the creator of anything once it's available online, not even enough to copy and paste a link to the source