Given the decal's dodgy path to the hood of the Firebird, you can probably guess it still wasn't a given that the "Screaming Chicken" would end up on the hood of so many vehicles.

If a 1973 black-and-gold Trans Am with the decal convinced Bill Mitchell there was merit to the design, the movie version convinced the rest of America. Pontiac saw the best-selling Firebird and ...

Pontiac didn't just make fast cars. It also put a careful emphasis on design. Here are some of the coolest graphics and decals the brand put on its cars.

Adorning the hoods of several iconic Pontiac muscle cars, the eponymous Firebird decal wasn't actually the 'Screaming Chicken' it was affectionately known as.