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I am 1 of the guys who worked at Creative during this period. What Mike S is telling all of you is fact (I may be old but my memory is intact!)Everybody has some sort of story, but did they work there? I think not! As Mike S mentioned cameras were not allowed in creative, and why would we take pics anyway? Who cared at that time, if I knew then what I know now, I would have snuck some pics out of the plant and also would have bought a dozen hemi cudas, so I could live large today! Nobody thought about what would happen in the future, be bought these cars beat the bejesus out of them the sold them for another one! As far as the A12's we only did the roadrunners at the 10 mile plant, the came in with no hoods or latches, we installed the rear brkts and the hood pins, installed the hood and pins, and the chrome bases had the lanyards to the inboard rivits, 3 oclock r/s, 9 oclock l/s. PS, Creative scrapped more hoods than we installed, due to defects, cracks and mostly busted off corners! This is the only proof I can offer, is my eye witness account! Believe it or not, Bob



thank you bob for the information you have given-i didn`t want to mention your name in my previous posts but i did keep referring back to an article in mcg july 97. seems that your name is the main information source for that article. the article states both runners and bees were delivered to creative and then the steel hoods were removed. by installing the brackets for the rear hood pins did you have to repaint the area where the hood hinges were? please let me know as we are going to be restoring the a12 car and if that was the case we will paint the car with hood hinges on then remove them and install the pin brackets and then re-shoot paint over that area. should we tap out the threads to install the hood hinges or were they held on with some other means.
if they were shipped to creative with no hoods then after installing the rear hood brackets did you re-shoot the paint in that area? again-please let me know because we want to restore the car correctly.
thanking you for your time
frank.