I lived in a rough neighborhood during the late 1970s to be closer to a job. There were quite a few large luxury cars in the neighborhood, some with chrome stars on the grills, others with round chrome spots on the grills. Some of those cars were new and some a little older.
One of my coworkers was a man who owned one of those cars. He also had a nice grill in his mouth (teeth, some gold, some studded with little diamonds). He explained to me that each of those stars or spots stood for each of their children who were living with various girlfriends. The objective, he said, was to out-populate whitey and someday take over the country.
Some of those cars had quite large numbers of chrome stars or spots on the grills—some around twenty or thirty. And that was in the late ‘70s.
Those stars are now great grandparents.