My birthday today... Got the seat belts and interior all back in the car, set off for my maiden voyage of the car finally basically all back together and finished...

REALLY wish I would have remembered to put the hood pins in...

Anyone have a green original paint '62 plymouth hood?

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You got to be kidding.... what a BUMMER..... but
happy B-Day

don't feel bad, i did it too. chit happens. happy-b-day.

Bummer, good luck on finding a hood. When I was 15 my friend's older brother was going down Central (Dallas) in a 69 RR way over 100, had the hood fly off, amazingly noone ran over it. We just picked it up. put it back on the car and drove slowly home, it only dented the corners.

-Daty

Happy Birthday!

Sorry to hear about the hood. I see you have the sleeper style pins.

So much for "concealed" hood pins.. I thought it was a heck of a good idea...maybe not so much now?

Outta sight,outta mind.

Happy birthday anyway.

Ouch. Sorry about your bad luck.

Any "good" old school body shops around that might be able to help?

But happy birthday anyway. It's always good to make it to your next one.

Yeah just stupid. Honestly I haven't had the hood open for weeks because I've been working on the carpet, seat belts, rear axle, and windshield. At some point they obviously came out and didn't go back in.

At least it didn't break my 3 day old windshield... lol

Oh well... still going to try and make it to Milan on Wednesday for some test and tune. Don't need a hood for that right?

Man, that sucks!

It's a good excuse to upgrade to fiberglass!

Bang it out and put it back on there - might help with the sleeper image...can always fix it later if you decide to paint the rest of the car.

you sure it wont buff out?

Scott.... IF you can find a hood I know people that
can produce that patina if you still want to stay that way

my hood pins are right in your face,been there done that,BUMMA!

I think it just adds to sleeper look, few dents cant hurt. Let us know how it runs at the track.

Damn! That's a bummer. Happy Birthday though....

Randy

Been there done that too on my 66 Coronet. I hate those Homer Simpson moments.

Been there and done that.

That's why anyone crewing the racecar gets the anal-retentive lecture "if you pull the hood pins, put them in the drivers seat!"

Talk about a seat-of-the-pants reminder.

Luckily I was at real slow speed. Just took off from the light, and it was a slow motion oh...S*** moment.

As mentioned, the good thing is that a few dents aren't too far out of charactor.

Took it to Jake68(Gary Jacobs) for the alignment today. Just need to fatten up the carb and check the pinion angle before Wednesday.

Boost is on the gate right now at about 9psi. I can tell you from a 1~2psi launch, even with the 2.76 gear it absolutely murders the drag radials on the street... lol