As I pointed out in my other reply, the National Packard Museum is here in NE Ohio where the Packard brothers began building those cars, and I worked 30 years for Packard Electric making wiring harnesses for modern GM cars.
A few years ago a local art group sponsored a contest where they handed out large statues of the Packard hood ornament and had local artists paint them. The decoration is technically called a "mascot", and no luxury car of the day was without one. It's slangily referred to by collectors as the "Donut Pusher" because of the obvious form.
When the statues were completed, including one sent from California by Jay Leno's garage, they were displayed in nearby Packard Park at the amphitheater supplied by our congressman Tim Ryan:
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