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Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:09 am

Saw this buggy the weekend at the George Old Car Show here in South Africa - what car is the hood ornament from? I know I have seen it before, but can't remember on which car?

Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:53 am

I want to say Rolls Royce, but not sure. I remember seeing one like it but can't remember where.

brad

Thu Feb 14, 2013 11:55 am

Thanks, just learned on another site it is from a '55 Nash Rambler

Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:30 pm

That has got to be just a few years before hood ornaments went out of style....

Dale

Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:12 pm

Anybody remember back in the eighties when the JC Whitney catalog would have about two pages of hood ornaments in it?

Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:15 pm

slalombuggy wrote: I want to say Rolls Royce, but not sure. I remember seeing one like it but can't remember where.

brad

A little different than a Rolls then???? :? :wink:

brad

Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:20 pm

So very close though Brad...... :lol:

Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:01 pm

donbarnes wrote: Anybody remember back in the eighties when the JC Whitney catalog would have about two pages of hood ornaments in it?

Yes. I remember. And Thanks for undoing all of my therapist's work after years of his efforts at helping me to forget...

bryan

Thu Feb 14, 2013 5:05 pm

adriaan pienaar wrote: Thanks, just learned on another site it is from a '55 Nash Rambler

From the book by Angelo Van Bogart, (2010). "50s Flashback: A Decade of Automotive Excellence"

"on the 1953 Rambler... a new hood ornament, designed by George Petty was optional. The "racy" ornament "was a sexy woman leaning into the future, bust down and pointing the way."

bryan

Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:02 am

Just saw a similiar one on Craigslist this morning.

http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/pts/3601152836.html

And the same one on E-bay. Said from a nash.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1955-Nash-Nude-Lad...589c248c68

Mon Feb 18, 2013 11:50 am

Nash, Rambler, ventually they became the same company and then were absorbed by AMC.

brad

Mon Feb 18, 2013 2:41 pm

i got one a few years back with lightup wings. They are still available. Ill see if i can find the link.

Tue Feb 19, 2013 6:11 pm

This is the place I got mine. They don't have the style above or the one I have anymore it looks like. They have different ones now though.

www.gemcollectibles.com/

Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:11 am