At 09:53 PM 9/27/97 +0000, you wrote:
>It arrived in a cheesy cardboard box. Didn't notice shallow dent in
>the middle of it when it was delivered. Complained to Moss, they
>returned the money for the part, but the shipping cost is a loss.
>They let me keep the bent hood so I figured I'd try to work with it.
>But that dang thing was a really bad fit on my car. The aft edge by
>the windscreen wasn't right, the sides weren't right, and you just
>cant get the gaps right with it.
The aluminum bonnet on my 67B was the pits. When I called around checking
prices Moss was very straightforward with me about the fit of the nonOEM
bonnets. I found another bonnet local that was in somewhat better shape than
mine, and it was proper aluminum. A friend who is a body work guy took on
the challenge of massaging the aluminum into presentable shape with a
minimum of bondo. He has suggested filling the cavity with some sort of
'boat' foam to keep those bonnet-shutting dimples from reappearing (since I
probably willn't be the only person closing it) and I will always check to
be doubly sure that the silly thing is closed GOOD before driving off --
flyup on the aluminum hoods has got to be a leading cause of their demise.
Michael, New Bern, NC
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