Illuminated display vehicle ornament

Claim 1

An illuminated display vehicle ornament, comprising: an elongated power cord; a cigarette lighter adaptor plug at one end of said cord for engagement with a vehicle lighter socket; an elongated hollow rectangular base formed from an opaque material; a mounting socket in said base electrically connected to an end of said power cord opposite said adaptor plug; an elongated bulb in said mounting socket; suction cup means for securing said base to an interior vehicle window surface; releasable fastening means for securing a selected one of a plurality of different display signs to said base; said display sign including a plurality of letters formed by a hollow housing having a forwardly directed opaque wall and a rearwardly directed translucent wall; said fastening means including an elongated rectangular slot extending along a top surface of said base and a cooperating frictionally engaging elongated rectangular projection extending along a bottom surface of said housing; said projection formed from a translucent material to transmit light from said bulb in said base to said housing and through said rearwardly directed translucent wall; a pair of inwardly extending ledges on said base, formed at opposite ends of said slot; and cooperating recesses formed at opposite ends of said bottom surface of said housing for engagement with said ledges.