A dog may seem like an odd adornment for a giant semi-truck, but there's a strong historical reason the bulldog is on Mack Truck hood ornaments.

“Every Mack truck that rolls off our assembly line ... chief engineer Alfred Fellows Masury carved the first Mack Bulldog hood ornament from a bar of soap during a hospital stay in 1932 to ...

It's a particularly realistic-looking model, capturing the real truck's blocky exterior to a T, especially the bold vertical chrome bars in the grille. The tiny Mack bulldog hood ornament is a ...