Sculptural hood ornaments

Mascots Unlimited is a manufacturer of custom hood ornaments. There's an amazing variety here (almost makes me wish I still owned my horrible used Hyundai!), but then, Mascots does supply the British Royal family with their blingy hood-candy. Link (Thanks, AJ!)

[#1 posted by Andrew Katz , February 2, 2008 1:53 AM]

Recent EU regulations may mean that all new cars sold in Europe now look like krill-grazing whales, but at least the approved curvy shapes give any pedestrian coming into contact with the front of the vehicle merely a comprehensive selection of bruises and fractured bones, rather than the spectacular evisceration that one of these strategically-located hood ornaments could cause.

I noticed that Jaguars in the U.S. still tend to have the meathook-like prancing Jaguar on their hoods, as opposed to a rather more epidermis-friendly button badge supplied on Euro-versions of the same car.

Let's not voluntarily equip our vehicles with butchery equipment ok?

[#2 posted by Takuan , February 2, 2008 7:54 AM]

relax, they all will be stolen in the first five minutes

[#3 posted by dragonfrog , February 2, 2008 10:45 AM]

I agree about the meathook aspect.

However, I am inspired to seek out the most overwrought ornament I can find for at least one of my bicycles...

[#4 posted by Infinite Decay , February 2, 2008 4:49 PM]

I think I'd be worried about these getting stolen if they were installed on a car. (Unless, of course, you have one of those Rolls-Royce style pop-up hood ornament mounts.)