37 Ford build--IE: old Header issues thread /37 Ford/5.0/GT40P heads

[Don Shillady]

Hood10-11#4_IMG.JPGHood10-11#3_IMG.JPGHood10-11#2_IMG.JPGHood10-11#1_IMG.JPGI am only on this thread because in the past you have encouraged me even though I have an SBC in a 'glass '29 replica body and to keep in touch with Dave W. However I now have a steel hood! I had to work over the summer but in August and September I got some quality time under the front fenders to install the metal '29 repro hood shelves and the hold-downs. It has been a bit of frustration to get the hood to fit right and i finally settled on the idea that it is better to get the front edge right instead of the rear edge. The '29 rear hood hinge rod was too tall as I showed in my last post in April but a '30-'31 mount made a better fit. Along the way I dinged the paint in a few places but that is too late now and maybe some of them can be rubbed out later. It turned out that you have to tap threads into the tube frame (Brookville) for the front hold downs and the 'glass body did not accomodate the front curve-down of the front apron so there had to be some trimming of the hold-down shelves. Well here it is as a ten-foot car (it looks good from ten feet away, don't look too close!).

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder