Stupidly messed up my original hood on my 65. Beyond repair. This was the hood off my parts car. Who makes one comparable to the original? How are the fiberglass ones? I can pick it up from NPD in Charlotte and save the freight-UPS oversize. OEM tooling is $415 but not sure of the quality. Need some help. I am not a fan of hood pins, but thinking about installing them. Not a pretty sight for a hood to cover your window! Have to try to get it ready for a charity show the first of November. Thanks.

 

Ooops, I've had that happen before, instant blindness ..... I hope you weren't going too fast.

I have no experience myself, but from what the others say, OEM tooling is always the best. NOS would be better. If you want fiberglass you can get it with the scoop, hell even a '67 style scoop which looks cooler in my opinion.

Either way, make sure your latch is fixed up or do the hood pins.

 

The mustang resto shop here in town uses the repop hoods and I had my doubts, but I saw them on several of thier cars and they look perfect. I will be buying the 145.00 repop for mine when the time comes. Brent

 

Get at my guy Chris "The Doc" Ingrassia on Twitter at @thestangdoc.

He can definitely help you with your issue!

 

Only about 35 but it is a new paint job. Made me sick! Thanks for the info. I lke the 67hood but question he fiberglass.

 

Great price. Any idea what brand they use or who makes them?

 

Thanks. I'll contact him tomorrow.

 

the pins are not for keeping the hood crashing into your windscreen.
race cars have four of them (no latch, no springs, no hinges). so you can get the whole hood of the car in the matter of seconds.

I don't know where this idea to have 2 in the front comes from. Can someone enlighten me?

 

First, before my dissertation, very nice looking car! Our cars sound similar. I have no idea but they were standard on some of the early Mustangs. Regardless the $100 pins would have saved me a lot of $ if I had them on before my hood came up. I have been driving for 50 years and this is a first for me, but it only took one time to realize things do not always work as they should. I really like the clean lines but ... I have talked to more people than I ever dreamed that had a hood pop open and most were not going as slow as I was. Instant blindness at 70 is not a good thing. I look at it like all the other stuff we do to our cars. Like I really have to have 400 hp, Wilwood brakes, Maier Racing SFC's and X-member, Bilstein shocks, etc. to drive down the road when in 1965 people, myself included, drove millions of miles on much worse roads and never heard of any of the things we do now. The 4th car I totaled back in the 60's was a 66 Mustang because it would go fast with no thought to anything else. I think I have convinced myself to get a pair.

 

For the exact reason of this thread. 2 in the front prevents the hood (bonnet) from breaking free of the latch and flying up, bending itself irrepairably. Race cars usually have 4 for a number of reasons: better access with hood off, fiberglass everything, quick hood removal, etc.