t/a hood

My brother has aT/A and he is starting to do some body work on it but the original was gone a long time ago so he wants to buy a new one does any body sell a good replacement he looking at year one for 1000 thanks for any help Matt.

It’s a shame you didn’t say AAR hood, I have one of those I could have sold for considerably less than 1k
New in a box, made by Dales Cuda Shop in the late 80’s

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Jeff

http://www.up22.com/challenger70.htm#DC-708

Never used them so can't comment on quality but here is an option to check out.

Thanks I will let him know I wish somebody had used unlimited but they may be the only people making them

these guys have the nicest TA hood. Its not like OEM (which means crappy and rough )

https://aarqualityfiberglass.com/product/hood-challenger-1970-1974-t-a-bolt-on/

There used to be a guy in Pennsylvania that made them crappy like OEM. ASC&P I think he called his company. I have one of his. NICE but too OEM looking for my T/A clone. I shoould have gone with one of the hoods above. In fact I was thinking about going with a more correct rallye hood or even a flat hood.

https://larrythephoenix.wixsite.com/ta-challenger-hoods/challenger-ta-hood

Molds are for sale. Sad to see them trashed. https://larrythephoenix.wixsite.com/ta-challenger-hoods

I know a guy that has an original TA hood. He’s been trying to sell it to me for $1400. It is painted and ready to install but he did mess up the paint a little the last time he took it to a swap meet. No way he’d be willing to crate it up to ship to NY, though.

I saw one from Unlimted and it was a poor fit width front to back and side to side was off. As I have seen sone the were not that great of a fit but the AAR ones are.
I too have one of the ASC&P hoods it was 3 parts like they were made botton top and scoop. They are rough. I spent way to much effort gettong it 100% and is way to nice now to pass for orginal. He looks like he no longer does it and is 100% into his hobby of being Balloon and Pilot Guy.
At the time AAR did nt make them and would have went that way. I could have done biody work on a whole car fir what it took to do just the hood.
They have a few washer setups sold out there. But would get the good metal ones are 100- 110 bucks but would pay once and get the right ones
I am not a 100% resto guy so added the SE hood trim to the rear as I have a 3 part set for hood and fenders I restored.
I used Ben Snowbar's whole set up. The base is 100% and the lid is the wide lip like it should be. I was lucky and he had a bent bast that was an easy fix so cut me a deal back then as we had pnety opf deals threw the years way back when he was in Hemmings I was buying X Blocks from him and other things.
If you do not have an Air Cleaner I would recomend his stuff as someone took the business over.

Jim, I know you've had your hood many years, and AAR did make a nicely finished piece, however AAR was acquired by Stinger, and Stinger products were always known for cheap resin, cheap gel coats, and substituting coremat for a quick/cheap build up to avoid using the proper OS mat/lay up, so I'd be Leary of an AAR product today.... from the few current parts that I've personally seen come out of Stinger/AAR they were inferior quality, nothing like AAR's past quality fit/finish....

Unlimited was mentioned also in this thread, granted Unlimited was a 50/50 shot in the past, they have been under new ownership/management the last few years and Kevin has greatly improved their products and service, the last few items I've received from Unlimited were very nicely done as far as fit/finsh

VFN is another source for T/A hoods, I haven't bought anything from VFN for a few years, but I never had any issues with hoods and fenders that I bought in the past, the quality of the gelcoat/glass/lay up were very nice

There's also USBodySource, I can't speak for their T/A offering, but I did buy a glass Shaker hood from them several years ago, the fit/finish was very good no complaints....

Mike

Wow-what a turn of events AAR down and Unlimited the go-to.
Thanks, for the update on how things are now I live in the past.

I bought an unlimited hood for my race car and took way to many hours to straighten it out. It was the lightweight race version.

Doc Fiberglass should jump on this.

Me too!! I was about to say get AAR and avoid Unlimited like the plague - but I guess things do change.
Wasn't it Unlimited that used to include a gallon of filler so that you could fill all the craters in the jellcoat?