Now THIS....is a hood ornament!

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It's on a 1953 Nash Greenbrier, 2-door, station wagon...
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It's probably a good thing that I've spent myself dry buying motorcycles, or I'd be down in Florida loading this beauty up right now and cruising the Black Hills with it this summer. $20,000? Heck, my Triumph Rocket 3 cost 4G's more than that.
 
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John Backlund said:
It's on a 1953 Nash Greenbrier, 2-door, station wagon...
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So how do those front tires turn?

That car is too cool! My son and I (I am a traditional gear head, he is not) were debating why someone would rather drive a Honda Accord instead of something like this.

No one ever started a story with,
"there was this guy I knew that drove a Toyota Camry...."
 
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My brother-in-law put a replica Rolls Royce hood ornament on a VW Beetle way back in the early '70s. It looked as stupid as it sounds. The last thing I need is another distraction. Your ornament looks very cool but it would just be one more distraction I'd have to try to ignore or look around or whatever. I'm at an age where, when I'm driving, I need to focus. A pretty lady's bum in my line of vision just seems so wrong.
 
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In 1956, I went home to Alabama and visited my Uncle Blake and Aunt Helen, and my cousins. I rode the bus alone from Arkansas to Alabama, I was thirteen years old. My uncle was a concrete construction contractor and probably the most successful of anyone in our family.

He had recently made a fabulous find, and purchase that would have been worthy of one of today's tv car shows. A 1941 Nash sedan! My uncle was a World War II war veteran who made good. He had in the course of his work found a gem, the 41 Nash had been winterized and stored on blocks when an old lady's son went away to war, and never returned.

It had 900, and a few miles on it, and when he found it, he talked with the lady, many had tried to buy it, but she wouldn't sell. When he related that he too had went away to war at the same time her son had, she relented and sold the car to him. He paid her a dollar for each mile on the odometer, quite a lot of money in 1956. He had someone carefully examine, and service and detail the car before it was driven and put some really fancy new tires on it.

I could already drive and had the opportunity to drive it several times when I was there. I don't think I ever drove it unsupervised, either my Uncle or my Aunt were always with me. It was just like a new car! It shifted (3 speed on the column) unbelievably smoothly. It was quiet, and very comfortable on the road.

Eventually, my uncle fell upon hard times financially, and what happened to the car I will never know, all who were involved are gone now save for me. The experience of driving the car, and my wonderful trip to Alabama that year are a cherished memory.
 
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ChicknPickn said:
Imagine putting that on a car today . . . .
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Why not? I went to the grocery store yesterday and saw something like that walking around. I am 6’5” and was in my cowboy boots. The young lady was almost eye to eye with me. She had more covering her feet than the Lycra top and shorts covered. Skin tight…nothing left to the imagination. That hood ornament meets the legal requirements for body covering here in Texas. As long as the genitalia and nipples are not visible, a person is good to go.
 
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Wally said:
Why not? I went to the grocery store yesterday and saw something like that walking around. I am 6’5” and was in my cowboy boots. The young lady was almost eye to eye with me. She had more covering her feet than the Lycra top and shorts covered. Skin tight…nothing left to the imagination. That hood ornament meets the legal requirements for body covering here in Texas. As long as the genitalia and nipples are not visible, a person is good to go.
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Aren't bonnet ornaments illegal in TX then?
 
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That's a great hood ornament! But it belongs on a real car not a Nash of all things!🤣
 
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John Backlund said:
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It's on a 1953 Nash Greenbrier, 2-door, station wagon...
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It's probably a good thing that I've spent myself dry buying motorcycles, or I'd be down in Florida loading this beauty up right now and cruising the Black Hills with it this summer. $20,000? Heck, my Triumph Rocket 3 cost 4G's more than that.
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Too much wide open for this car out there. SD would swallow this thing up. This thing needs to be winding through extremely green wooded country roads with a cheese store and a brewery on every corner. Send it here. For the few months of the year it won't get eaten by rust, anyway.
 
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