I'm looking at buying an old oddball and someone has tried closing the hood with jammed/stiff hinges. The hood is now kinked just ahead of the hinge mounts. Has anyone ever had any luck repairing these? I've never tried; just replaced the hood whenever I came across this problem. But in this case, tracking down a hood for this car will be difficult and will be expensive to ship.

Obviously you're in for some work but I guess you know that...It can be done...Basically your either removing all or sectioning out some of the underbracing and dealing with the bent upper sheetmetal...Then replacing/straightening then reinstalling the underbracing...
The trick here is to work smart...You'd be looking to cut the underbracing out to gain access to the hood sheetmetal but cut it in a way to make it easy to put back weld/grind to make the repair invisible....The shape of the underbracing and how bad the hood is creased will dictate the range of the repair...
You need to determine wether you have the skills to tackle it or give the work to someone else...I've sectioned anything from small pieces of underbracing to complete projects making a good hood out of two ugly parts and it's very time consuming to do it right..

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Can you repair a kinked hood? If so, how?

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With a whip!


Unless it's an expensive part, you are often better off finding another.
Oh, and fix the hinges BEFORE you bolt it back on...

Sectioning the understructure and working out the metal on top before putting it back together, huh? Didn't think of that. Sounds like fun:)
Worth a try, I would think. Wouldn't cost much more than my time. Thanks!!

Depends on how it is bent, but the hood on my Charger was originally off a junkyard car and the hood was slightly buckled. The body shop welded tabs to the front underhood structure and bolted brackets to the hood hinge bolt holes and used the brackets to hook up a puller to pull the hood straight.

Anything can be repaired.
It's just a matter of money.