Hood Ornaments facts
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The original purpose of the hood ornament on a car, before they were artistic and ornate, was a visible thermometer for the car's coolant. Image in comments.
how hood ornaments are made?
Car companies like Jaguar, Cadillac, and Dodge discontinued hood ornaments in part because they would kill pedestrians in otherwise minor traffic incidents
What cars still have hood ornaments?
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what happened to hood ornaments?
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Roseanne Barr was hit by a car at age 16, and the hood ornament went into her brain and through her skull. Her behavior changed so radically that she was institutionalized for eight months at Utah State Hospital, where she had a baby, which she gave up for adoption.
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The Rolls-Royce hood ornament is not an angel or a ghost, but rather a woman with cloth billowing behind her. The model for this, "Spirit of Ecstasy", was killed when her ship was sunk by a U-boat.
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Hood ornaments were invented to decorate the "motometer", a temperature gauge screwed into the radiator cap. They became purely decorative as the temperature gauge was moved to the dashboard, and the radiator cap was moved to underneath the hood.
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You cannot steal a Rolls Royce Hood Ornament
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Rolls-Royce Cars have a Brilliant Anti-theft system built in to prevent the iconic Hood ornament from getting stolen
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Peter Schlumbohm, inventor of the Chemex coffee maker, partied his way through the 1950s on all night benders. Every day was the same: he slept in past noon, went into work for an hour, then hit NYC until 3am driving around in his Cadillac Coupe De Ville, complete with gold Chemex hood ornament.
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You can't steel the hood ornament of a Rolls-Royce
