Back in the day, the hood ornament played a major role in my learning to drive.  (No, I wasn’t learning when THESE cars were on the road …. it was a “few” years later!)  When my dad took me out to practice on narrow winding country roads, he always told me not to take my half out of the middle of the road.  In order to help me determine if I were staying in the proper spot in my lane, he told me to try and keep the hood ornament in line with the line on the right edge of the road.  I imagine that it worked well enough, but I remember having trouble at first watching the hood ornament, the on-coming traffic, the road itself, the signs, etc.  Many of the cars at the Pottsville Car Cruise had hood ornaments and that reminded me of my days learning to drive a car.