I bought an NOS Formula hood from PerformanceYears site member "The Boss," (chris) today. Definitely a great guy with some really nice cars! I went out and picked it up this morning. This will be the next project - it needs some (hopefully minor) repair work. It has been sitting in his shed for several years and before that in someone else's parts stash. Its a very nice hood, other than it being the victim of bad storage practices, most likely when it was new. Someone way back when, stood it on the windshield end and both of the fragile fiberglass corners were broken off. Ugh!
I decided to go for this NOS hood, as mine is heavily bowed up in front of the hood hinge area (a common problem with Formula hoods), some of the defroster grills are cracked, and there are stress cracks in my hood that look like they were badly repaired at the scoop bases in the front. Probably from someone closing the hood way too hard, a few hundred times.
Now I can devote less repair effort on a nicer, flatter hood. The hood is made of the same white molded glass material as the spare shaker scoop that I repaired a couple years ago. That shaker coincidentally had a similar sized section of its corner broken off. I used the bondo fiberglass filler gel and it came out really nice.
https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbt...pics/99416/113
Driver's side corner:
Passenger side corner:
