Body modifications not to do...

[66gt350]

aka...make sure your hood is latched when leaving home.

Ok, I'll be the first to admit that I should nominate myself for the Idiot Award. I go to take off the other morning, and I didn't notice that when I closed the hood the night before, I didn't latch it -- just put it down. I take off, and just when I'm starting to get going I see the hood start to flap...OH CRAP!!! Before I could slam on the brakes, the hood came up. It doesn't take much air to bring up a fiberglass hood. Luckily there was no one behind me. I just stopped in the middle of the road and completely shut the hood. I get back to the garage and check out the damage. I was lucky -- minimal damage. I'm missing a little more paint from the front lip of the cowl...no biggie the car is still in it's primer redneck phase. The hood took the worst of it. But all I can see that it did was separate the hood from the frame and a maybe took a small piece out of the rear corner.

 

[Midlife]

Ouch.

 

[RapidRabbit]

That sucks. At least you didn't crash the car or damage someone else's.

 

[SELLERSRODSHOP]

SEM (and others) makes a nice 2 part adhesive that will glue that back together & make it good as new.

 

[B67FSTB]

Same idiot here. :hs
It did happen to me too.
Only I had the orig hood.
Same paint chip damage.

 

[cmayna]

Note to self. Check your latch.

 

[Fast68back]

I used to worry about that, now I dont leave home without this

 

[Horseplay]

I used to worry about that, now I dont leave home without this

Tape leaves a nasty reside plus it makes it hard to check your oil. Upgrade to this system and you're all good.

 

[KBMWRS]

Now that's a hood latch!!!!! :thu

 

[copasspupil]

I did the same thing when I first got my hood. Another 450 later and now I'm screwing with trying to get the hinges to work right.

 

[cmayna]

Maybe hood pins?