Cadillac’s wreath hood ornament was the 12th logo to have graced ... into winged ornaments that leaned toward the upcoming ...
The long, sleek, train-like ornament stretched back for ... and the following year brought hood ornaments that looked like a large passenger jet (as shown above on the 1956 Star Chief).
The Cutlass also provided the inspiration for the hood ornament on the 1955 and ’56 ... “I flew around 380 hours in the jet and never once wrote Okay on the [maintenance] sheet,” Feightner ...