Hooniverse Christmas Eve Edition – So what car related Christmas Ornaments do you have?
Welcome to another Hooniverse Weekend, and because this weekend falls on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, This will be a very light weekend of postings. However, since this is Hooniverse, we won’t completely leave you without at least some original content for the holidays, so i will start out with a question: What car related Christmas Ornaments do you have on your Christmas Tree?
Hallmark Cards is the largest Greeting Card company in the world, and they own a number of other businesses which include Crayola LLC, The Hallmark Channel, the upscale Kansas City Department Store Halls, as well as a number of competitive greeting card companies. The Hallmark Keepsake Ornament Collection was launched in 1973 with only a handful of designs, and has grown to a point where over 3,000 different designs have been produced. One of the yearly has been the Classic American Vehicles series, of which I have collected just a few over the years.
Among other Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments I have collected is this one, which represents a door of a truck, which you can place a picture of a loved one where the window is. This one is of my Beagle, Buster. I rescue Beagles, and Buster is my fourth.
I also have a couple of other truck themed ornaments. This Monster 4X4 is something I don’t really remember getting, but it’s in the ornaments box, so it goes on the tree every year.
This is a Ford F-1 pickup that is really a key chain, but instead of it getting knocked around with my set of keys, I just decided to hang it on the tree.
The Other Ornaments I have include the 1957 Dodge Sweptside (Lead Image), the 1959 ElCamino (second image), the Dodge Little Red Wagon, a 1953 GMC, and a 1937 Ford.
So, why not show us what you have for Automotive Themed Christmas Ornaments, and post a few of yours here.
Hallmark and Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments is a registered trademark of Hallmark Cards. Well, we have to keep it legal…
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Awesome collection!
Considering the many car related items that I have…I actually have no car themed Christmas ornaments. That might have to change.
Sadly, I have none, but I wish I had know about these at Target last year: http://www.autoworldhobby.com/products/misc/
Duuude!! A Lil' Red Express with a Christmas tree in the bed!
We didn't even get our 5 feet plastic tree out this year, and I have no car-related ornaments. Theoretically I could hang the 4GB Volvo flash drive keychain I got as a gift, but that's pushing it.
I've got those beat. My wife got me a Christmas tree ornament of the Lunar Rover.
I imagine they're meant to resemble the stock item instead, but all I'm getting out of the hubcaps on that Sweptside ornament is '57 Ford:
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Big thumbs up on the beagle rescue, Jim.
Classic American vehicles ornaments? Egad, I should tell the wife, she collects ornaments like a banker collects congressmen. With probably a similar cash outlay. Hmmm, do I need to eat every day next year….
No one's guessing what truck that door's off of yet? Given the odd window/door height ratio and the upright A-pillar, I was thinking '60s van. Because it's Jim, I thought it might be a Greenbriar? It looks like a first generation Econoline is closer:
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That '37 Ford is cool, my old boss had one just like that.
My wife and I have a sizeable Snow Village collection that we set up every year. (It started with a few at a wedding shower and we got more each x-mas) It has lots of fifties-ish cars that are sort of an amalgam of styling cues of several manufacturers.
This is only part of my collection of Hallmarks; the rest are at my folks' house.
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Also at my parents' house: A tin(?) Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, and a flat, gold Fuchs wheel, among others.
Looks like we have a winner!