New picture from my Body and Paint Specialist.

I don't like hood locks or hood pins, so it doesn't have them.

I love it when a specialist listens to the client!

Steven

 

I'm after the same hood is it a 70's? I'm trying to get one for my 69 but running out of places to find one. We're u get urs from?

 

i had a hood lock slide a pin
not easy to open the hood when that happens. LOL
i left the lock out and drove the car. at highway speed that corner
of the hood was wagging. not cool wind tunnel test for me.


good luck with your clean (no hood locks scene)

 

The Hood I own was made for a later model with a different latch mechanism so an adjustable plate holding the old hood protrusion had to be fabricated. In the end it will work exactly the same as did the original hood and thus allowed for the filling of the hood-lock impressions. I think it will look good with the OAI and no hood-locks, some people like hood locks, nothing wrong with that, I just wanted this one without. - Steven

 

I love the look.

 

Thanks, I like the look too. I'm planning to set the hood up to latch tight with contact on the bumpers and am hoping I don't have too much vibration when it's all said and done. - Steven

 

I like the look too! Also like not having to shell out a couple hundred bucks for the pins and retainers! Did they actually fill the pockets? How did they and what did they use. Do you know? Getting ready to put one of those hoods on my car too. Just wondering......

 

The inside of the recess was roughed up and then packed with Duraglass (The green stuff). Then a circle of fiberglass mat with resin/hardener was adhered over the top. I didn't do the work but I'm told that it took quite a bit of working the area. It's not a flat area and the bow and blend aspect required patience and several visits to look/feel right. I'm sure I spent as much or more in time as the hardware costs, I just think I'll like the look without the lock/latches. My car is a 69 so it required the re-working of the latch point on the hood that I don't think you'll have to do for a 1970. - Steven

 

that's a nice idea, I prefer the hood lock look - guess its just old school to me but appreciate the "cleanness" of it. I too wonder how the hood will stay down at higher speeds, I had a hood pin "pin" come loose as well and the hood definitely tried to raise on that corner - hope yours stays down securely.

 

It does give it a sleeker look for sure. I once had a plain jane '71 Supreme with my hopped up 455 in it & a friend of mine & me were "playing" on a local interstate one day. I can tell you that at way over legal speeds a regular steel hood will flap alarming from one side to the other. Right then I understood why they used the hood pins!

 

It's going to be set up tight against the bumpers, latch tight, and I'll hope for the best. It will be latching the same way as the hood before it. I understand the concerns, I will certainly torque it around and make sure it latches good after every time it's opened. - Steven