Mit der hood - Page 3

Jonny69 · 23-03-2010, 19:45

I can haz hood. I bought some repro 1932 Ford bonnet catches and fitted up a hood to the car. It came with a one piece hood made of galv steel which is really wobbly and bendy and I couldn't for the life of me work out how the old owner held it on. There's a bolt at the back and two badly fitting slots at the front which were just asking it to blow off on the motorway...

I've used some repro 1932 pulldown latches, which are the spring loaded T-bar shaped ones which hook through the sides. They work really well and as a precaution I've reinforced the front slots with washers and they wing-nut on.

It's quite nose heavy but I kinda like it. Space in there for a flathead straight 6

See the old mountings that I've bodged er, I mean beefed up with washers and added a pair of '32 catches each side:

The plan is I'm going to cut down the middle of the bonnet and hinge it as per original. There are two huge holes cut in the top that I need to fill first, then add a steel piano hinge from RS. I'm replacing the exhausts for some that run under the car and when I do that I'm going to cut the sides off this hood and remake them properly, and I'll get rid of the old wingnut mountings at the same time because they look messy.

In the meantime I have a big empty space in the garage where the hood was sat, kind of the right size space to rebuild an Anglia engine in

23-03-2010, 19:45	#1
Jonny69 Noob Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Socialist Republik of Kent Posts: 5,032	1927 Model T hotrod build I can haz hood. I bought some repro 1932 Ford bonnet catches and fitted up a hood to the car. It came with a one piece hood made of galv steel which is really wobbly and bendy and I couldn't for the life of me work out how the old owner held it on. There's a bolt at the back and two badly fitting slots at the front which were just asking it to blow off on the motorway... I've used some repro 1932 pulldown latches, which are the spring loaded T-bar shaped ones which hook through the sides. They work really well and as a precaution I've reinforced the front slots with washers and they wing-nut on. It's quite nose heavy but I kinda like it. Space in there for a flathead straight 6 See the old mountings that I've bodged er, I mean beefed up with washers and added a pair of '32 catches each side: The plan is I'm going to cut down the middle of the bonnet and hinge it as per original. There are two huge holes cut in the top that I need to fill first, then add a steel piano hinge from RS. I'm replacing the exhausts for some that run under the car and when I do that I'm going to cut the sides off this hood and remake them properly, and I'll get rid of the old wingnut mountings at the same time because they look messy. In the meantime I have a big empty space in the garage where the hood was sat, kind of the right size space to rebuild an Anglia engine in __________________ Last edited by Jonny69; 14-04-2010 at 13:40.