I just received this hood (swapping out my eleanor style hood for it). It is closed at the back but it does have a angle area at the section close to the windshield, where the bumped up section sort of melds back to the regular hoods height. Mine is not painted yet, I just mocked it in and made the holes for the hood pins last night. See if I can get a pic later tonite for you.. However you can rest assured it is not open back there..