MustangMan1718

Body shops amaze me. That GT500 picture made me want to cry until I scrolled down and saw it was restored to look like it was completely new. I know a lot of time and effort goes into it, and I find the whole process highly respectable. I wish I had these types of skills myself. Bringing old cars back to life would make one very fun way to make a living.

kgrun4

Here's a pic with the centered lights grille I received thursday.

09cs

What hood is that?

07 Stang

Wow, your dad & uncle do great work! I've always wanted to learn how to do body restoration on old cars.

kgrun4

I was told from the guy that I bought it from its the Cervinis 67 Style hood. Its the only hood I can find this style.

Stang-aholic

thats a lot of work! and its awesome the work your doing, that rear corner was majorly messed up! looks good so far, keep us posted.

thats also a lot of work to save the v6 front fascia, did u consider replacing it with a GT or aftermarket front?

09cs

It looks like this one too http://www.trufiber.com/Trufiber_Mus...f10024-a42.htm

kgrun4

I thought about replacing the front bumper, but at the time I hadn't thought I'd need a new hood and buying a new bumper would have required blending the drivers fender which would have been more expensive. Now that I had to buy a hood I have to blend the fender anyways. It wasn't as bad as it seems to fix the front bumper though. I sanded the damaged areas first too so my dad's shop didn't have to. Plus a new bumper would have needed to be primed as well. Though the gt bumper would have looked more agressive (and would have given me more grille options) I'm putting a CDC chin spoiler on which I think will make the bumper look pretty decent.

That hood does look similar to it but I know its not that one because that hood says it has pre-drilled holes for a prop rod and nozzles, which mine didn't have either. I'm glad it didn't have the nozzle holes predrilled as I think nozzles on the hood would have looked ugly, I got a relocater kit for them. The paperwork the guy who sold it to me gave me said it was from extreme dimesions and it was duraflex even though the picture he showed (as well as actual ones) was the cervinis one. So I'm thinking it wasn't a cervinis one but I haven't been able to find where it could be from. In any event I got it for a decent price and I like the look. It took my uncle a while to get it sanded smooth but that happens with any fiberglass hood.

Andy_H

This is coming along great, looks like yall are making some good progress

98gtmustangpi

awesome job!!!! lookin very good..... keep it up!!!!!