Automobile Hood Ornaments |
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Postwar auto styling often combined two popular themes—aviation
and sex. A 1948 Buick brochure features a phallic hood ornament that
is also reminiscent of a fighter aircraft gunsight.
The 1956 Oldsmobile ornament was shaped like a rocket. But a brochure cover that juxtaposed the rocket with a bare-shouldered woman crying “Oh-h-h!” carried an unmistakable sexual subtext. |
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Images:
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. 1) Automobile Product Literature
1948 Buick, Sales Lit. & 2) Automobile Product
Literature 1956 Oldsmobile, Sales Lit.. |
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