Automobile Mascots
and Hood Ornaments
Woodie auto mascots seen on the pier in San Clemente, CA at the city's yearly Ocean Festival, July, 2024
(above: Hood Ornament, 1938 Packard Woodie model 1600. Photo 2024 by John Hazeltine)
(above: Hood Ornament on a 1941 Plymouth woodie wagon. Photo 2024 by Scott Hornbeak.)
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Editor's note: In May, 2022 Bob & Tina Minty, San Clemente, CA, owners of a 1929 wood-clad Oldsmobile, asked TFAO to help identify a radiator hood ornament which they affixed to it. Please click here for details.
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