Thank you for your interest, PaulaJedi. I guess I can share more at this point. Based on researching car grills, the nearest we can come to a make/model/year ID is a Cadillac Brougham or Fleetwood, 1980ish. I showed different grills to my wife, and she said those were the closest. She also said it had a hood ornament, but she had only seen it in for a moment before she instinctively turned to look to see if anything was coming from the opposite direction. When she looked back to the left, it wasn't there.
I had thought this might have been a time travel thing because previous to this ev