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@Black Ice: yes, as Lateef has said, this horseshoe shall bring luck. It was popular mostly in the 60ies and 70ies - when there were cars, with a grille, where you could mount them. And these are no real horseshoes, you really could buy "aftersales market"-horseshoes, just for putting them on the grille.
It was something, mostly older people have done on their cars. So it's correct, that you could see them mostly on Jaguar and Benzes.
I'm living nearby the Ruhr area, where many coalmines have existed in the past. Often you could see chrome-badges with these symbols on car-grilles, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_and_pick
But they have disappeared, since nearly all coal-mines were closed nowadays.
It was something, mostly older people have done on their cars. So it's correct, that you could see them mostly on Jaguar and Benzes.
I'm living nearby the Ruhr area, where many coalmines have existed in the past. Often you could see chrome-badges with these symbols on car-grilles, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_and_pick
But they have disappeared, since nearly all coal-mines were closed nowadays.