:haha:

You know....you're not far off on your guess. :haha:

Bahahaha Not a chance I'd sell this car. Just hauled it over to friends to scale the car and measure out all points using frame gauges. All good and square...now back to finishing the car. Just wanted to have a little fun with all y'all and thought a pic of the car in the trailer would make it appear believable. ������

This car is going nowhere but down the road when I drop the clutch this summer. :burnout:

That's pretty funny, you had a few people going! :haha::haha:

GRRRRRRR...... You got me Graeme!


Jason

Also taking that fiberglass stinger hood out to my painter and I'm hoping to have that back when the car is ready. It needs a lot of help to get it fixed and ready for paint so it really depends on how much time he can spend on it. I should know that in the next week or two.

https://i.ibb.co/0J8FcLd/IMG-5317.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/rFR8b1n/IMG-5404.jpg

That stinger hood is going to be the cherry on top! Glad to hear we'll get to see it finished, you had me Graeme.

All that Day-2 stuff on display and I am jealous of the garage heater!!!

Ryan W31

Ryan...

A 60,000 BTU heater like this is fairly cheap to buy and install. You gotta have heat to work in a garage so that went in years ago before any car restorations or projects were started. Makes life a lot more enjoyable when you don't have to combat cold tools or floors.

Great stuff Graeme!!:beers:

Cant wait to see the stinger hood done and on the car , You never see them with the Z stripes painted on . Very cool look

I knew better!

Now that we are past that SICK FREAKING JOKE........how bout we get this car to MCACN?

Of course, assuming your Prime Minister gives you a permission slip;)

Hard to say if Chicago will even be a go for this year as Covid is coming at the world with a new strain just about every other week it seems. The northern borders are locked down in both directions to everyone but essential workers, and there's no sign of that opening before year-end at best. I'd bet you won't see it open for another year from now. (April or May 2022 is my guess)

I know they just canceled the World of Wheels show here and that comes on the back of three other car shows just canceled in the US and Canada. And I'm sure there will be more. Besides, I'll have so much burnt rubber and dust built up on those yellow panels by end of the summer that most people wouldn't stop to look at this old banana. (lol)

I will post lots of videos though.:burnout:

I'm now starting to reassemble the front end and with that, I took the old fiberglass stinger hood out to my body man hoping that he could work that into his schedule. It has a few cracks in the inner bracing that keeps the integrity of the hood...and after reviewing the hood with him today, he explained to me exactly what each area was going to need in terms of repair work before getting to the restoration of the top side.

In addition to the bracing, the top of the scoop has an inverted (or concave area) that has buckled down into a good size dent and that's going to need some relief work before the section can be reformed. He added that it may require a brace to help form it back into its original shape. I should have it back in a few weeks if all goes well.

https://i.ibb.co/KmRh5vz/Hood-top.jpg
The topside showing the concave section and the areas needing repairs.

https://i.ibb.co/LDFncnP/IMG-6544.jpg
Old repair that's again cracked right at the front center of the support brace.

https://i.ibb.co/XXFnzy8/IMG-6546.jpg
Crack along the rear brace under the hood cowl.

https://i.ibb.co/Fg4GyTN/IMG-6543.jpg
Crack along the front brace to the right of the centerline.

I'm really hoping this sets the car off when it's all done and said (fingers crossed).

Wise choice Graeme....stay home and safe.

Ron started working on the hood yesterday and is attempting to get the concave area to pop back up and stay there. He'll work on that some more today and then he'll start working to fix its broken back as he calls it. Once those are templated and fully repaired, it will move outside so he can put on a full suit and strip the surface back to raw fiberglass. He'll then apply a new layer of fiberglass and resin to the entire surface before starting to bodywork all of the topsides. It's going to need about 20 hours of repair work to bring this hood around prior to paint. A very costly save but one I am hoping is worth it in the end?

I'll add some pics as it progresses along.

Here are some pics of the top side as it was stripped down today and the first layer of fiberglass was applied to one of the repair areas. Lots of work to come but real happy that he's getting on it for me.

https://i.ibb.co/znFBN61/IMG-6557.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/Xjj92sN/IMG-6558.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/0nZwCVz/IMG-6560.jpg

Few more pics of the inside bracing being repaired with new fiberglass. Ron tells me the hood has been repaired at least twice in its life. Third time lucky I said. (ha)

https://i.ibb.co/bjhC26Z/IMG-6563.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/gwDr9Cb/IMG-6564.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/CVDbRm1/IMG-6562.jpg

Ron should be bronzed! He's really taking good care of you bud;)

Very interesting hood... Was this made by A&A Fiberglass? Many differences between this "original" hood and my reproduction hood. My entire hood was gel coated giving the underside a more refined smooth, but very wavy, look. Yours looks more "homemade". I really like how it looks, reminds be of a race boat.

I'm not sure who made it at this point, but from everything I have seen for pics of early glass hoods made in the 60's and 70's, they all seem to look pretty crude like this and have an unfinished look on the underside with layers of glass visible under the resin. I know A&A was a big player back in the day, but don't know if it was actually made by them? Does anyone know who was making hoods for the cars built by Motion, Dana and whoever else was putting out hi-performance cars with fiberglass hoods back in the day?

In discussing the underside of this hood with Ron, he asked me if I wanted the underside fluffed up and I told him no. It's an old original glass hood so lets retain that look on the underside. Also told him that when I roll into cruise night (or where-ever I take the car) that I'll likely gear down, and idle in with that lumpy cam only to shut it down and walk away with the hood pinned down. That'll keep most people guessing or trying to figure the car out from what they can see under and around the car.

:biggthumpup:

Oh, that's mean. My favorite part is under the hood.

I never pop my hood !

The underside was finished up late this afternoon, then dusted with some black paint and sanded smooth to take away all the sharp edges in the fiberglass. This helped keep that vintage look that it had prior to the structural repairs. Ron then flipped it over and applied nearly two packs of matting and 4 quarts of resin to completely layer the top. It will be sanded smooth tomorrow and then it'll be body worked and prepped for paint. It should get some color this weekend.

https://i.ibb.co/kgJnYYW/IMG-6573.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/0MpPC39/IMG-6572.jpg

Great hood! Glad you are saving it. Berry (spelling) plastics of southern ca was another player making hoods. They made the infamous dana hood as well as a lot of the early short back seats for the trans am cars and other race cars.

Graeme, FWIW - You May want to hold off on any primer or colour until you trial fit that hood into your opening. A lot of times those old Fiberglass hoods need material added ( or removed ) to the side & front edges to close up the gaps. We saw that a lot at Western Corvette with the A&A & other manufacturers on Corvette hoods, some of the gaps were brutal wide and not consistent. The repo crossram hoods are sometimes the same in that they need material added along the edges to maintain consistency at fenders and front of hood. Guess it depends how fussy you are.

Got all that handled Mike. The Hood will be trial fit before it gets any color added.

Thanks for that.

Any updates Graeme? Inquiring minds wanna know....lol

Scary seeing it repaired on a stand. Hope it was test fitted on a vehicle for accurate body lines....:eek2:

This is Major Chuck to Graeme Control....
Are you floating in the most peculiar way??? Three weeks without an update! That's gotta be some kinda record.

Love it! Creative, too :haha:

F-glass hood
 

I think your hood is a Harwood because I have one very similar to it. RobR list a hood for sale here a week or so ago that the underside looks like mine and yours. He and I have discussed the hoods in length and compared them to others he had on race cars back in the day. The one he posted for sale the other day had a Harwood sticker still on it.
My hood is very light and fragile and Rob said his was also. Mine has a stress crack in the front center where you point yours does.
I have some pics of mine if you want to see them.

Richard

I see... Floating through space hunting for chocolate chip cookies!

No need for a debate here on who's hood it is or who's it may have been? There were several manufacturers of hoods back in the day and most of them copied each other's processes and looked very much the same. At the end of the day...it's old, it's a stinger, and it's now been restored & fitted to the car prior to being refinished. I'll try and catch up on more of the car sometime next week as I'm up to my neck in business contracts right now. Lots of things on the go around here...including a new DZ build that's developing. :scholar:

https://i.ibb.co/xCfQXcL/IMG-6635.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/PCJVSgS/IMG-6638.jpg

Wow, great transformation. Turned out really nice. :beers:

Stinger club :beers:

Awesome Graeme!:beers:

Well hot damn! I know if was more work than planned but it looks great!


Jason

About 30 hours in total to repair, prep, and paint the hood. Don't ask me if I'd do it again...but it is pretty cool. I'll take some better pics outside when the weather clears up around here.