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Identifying Hood Ornaments


Chevrolet Hood Ornaments

Chevrolet hood ornaments are characterized by:

  • 1920s: Winged woman leaping forward with horse's tail
  • Early 1930s: stylized eagle
  • late 1930s: stylized locomotive and locomotive/eagle
  • 1940s were mixed up with stylized eagle, eagle/locomotive and locomotive
  • 1950s: stylized eagle/airplane and an Impala
  • 1957 had gunsights

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  • 1920s Chevrolet

  • 1928 Chevrolet

  • 1930s Chevrolet emblem

  • 1932 Chevrolet

    top view

  • 1933 Chevrolet

    other side view

  • 1935-38 Chevrolet

  • 1936 Chevrolet

    side

    another one

    detail1

  • 1937-38 Chevrolet

    another view

  • 1938? Chevrolet Bird

  • 1938 Chevrolet

    another view

  • 1940 Chevrolet

  • 1946 Chevrolet

    side view

  • 1947 Chevrolet

    another view

  • 1947-53 Chevrolet Truck

  • 1947-48 Chevrolet

    detail

  • 1947-48 Chevrolet

  • 1948 Chevrolet

  • 1949 Chevrolet

  • 1950 Chevrolet red plastic

  • 1950 Chevrolet winged eagle

    side view

  • 1950 Chevrolet emblem

  • 1951 Chevrolet

    side view

    bottom view

  • 1952 Chevrolet

  • 1953 Chevrolet

  • 1953 Chevrolet emblem

  • 1953-54 Chevrolet

  • 1953-54 Chevrolet Type 2

  • 1954 Chevrolet truck

    another view

  • 1955 Chevrolet airplane

    another view

  • 1956 Chevrolet

    another view

  • 1957 Chevrolet truck

  • 1980-81 Chevrolet Caprice

  • 1991-96 Chevrolet Caprice

  • Aftermarket Chevrolet bowtie logo sold by JC Whitney


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