The 1975 Cadillac Eldorado did not just flirt with excess, it treated extravagance as a design brief. At a moment when regulators, fuel prices, and shifting tastes were all pushing Detroit toward ...

Hood ornaments are all but gone in modern cars, but decades ago automakers had a bit more taste, adorning their cars with evocative symbols of speed and beauty. Cadillac, for example, had its Goddess, ...

Hood ornaments are long gone from most automobiles, a victim of pedestrian safety regulations keen on keeping people from being impaled by steel and chrome in the event of a collision. With a few ...