Best path to getting a 69 HO hood.

My choice of OAI hoods is Thorton Muscle Cars. By far the best quality, and highest price. They do not make the 69 hood or the mailbox piece. Is this a full recreation in shop piece? Can you buy the mailbox and then pop it on a 69 hood? I prefer to buy the whole hood in one shot.

Thanks in advance

 

Your title says 68 but your post talks about 69. I'll assume it's the latter. The mailbox scoops are just bolted to a stock metal Cutlass S/442 hood. There is no "one piece" hood for 1969. The hole under the scoop looks like it was cut out with an old can opener. They drilled four 1" diameter holes in the corners of the cutout and connected them with a jigsaw. It isn't pretty.

 

Thank you Joe. You are such a great resource for the community. I will pass this on to the body man so he can break the jigsaw out haha.

 

I should have mentioned that most of the Olds vendors sell the repro scoop.




This gives you an idea of the hole cut in the hood. You can just barely make out the four 1" holes in the corner of the cutout.

 

My original hood has 7/16" diameter drill holes in the corners. Granted, it's an early car (April 1 conversion), so if they went to a 1" hole later, I am not aware of that. You can just measure a square, start with a big hole in the center and hog it out square without corner holes if you're not worried about trying to replicate what Demmer did.

Any double hump 69 hood should do. Just measure 3 times and cut once. I took measurements of my car shown in the drawing below. Note: All cars were not created the same. Each car had its own "variance". So the beauty is you never have to always be exact on these cars.

Keep in mind, the 5-9/16" x 5-7/8"HOLE rear edge is about 20-1/4" from the front edge of the hood "chrome". If the scoop is on, the rear center edge of the scoop is about 18-5/8" to the front edge of the hood "chrome". Again, it's just how good the techs were at lining up drill holes.

Stripe fans out at rear and continued underneath the hood scoop a bit. The idea was for the "fanned" area to meet up with the gold area on the front of the hood scoop since the center stripe in front of the scoop is a bit thinner than the stripe ON the scoop.

 

I've seen them both ways. Mine is an 04C car and has larger holes, though I'm eyeballing the 1". I haven't actually measured.

 

Could be. Of course, I may have written down the wrong numbers on my notepad when I was measuring crap years ago. I may go out and measure them again, just to make sure.

 

Yeah, you're gonna make me do that now too.

 

And here I was going to reply to the OP's question of HO Hood location with "between the fenders."