hood hinge

I have this planned, also. There's a particular oldsmobile from the early 90s that has a perfect forward-opening hood hinge setup, too. There's a torsion bar and everything. Junkyard wants $30 for it, I just have to get around to getting over there. Reverse opening hoods not only look cooler, they're also safer. (and yeah, a cowl induction all the way to the windshield would be badass.)

oldsmobile from the early 90s that has a perfect forward-opening hood hinge setup, too. There's a torsion bar and everything.

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1986-1991 Buick Lesabre and Park Avenue.

TheEvII said:

1986-1991 Buick Lesabre and Park Avenue.

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I saw the Buick in the local Pick 'n Pay but didn't have tools with me at the time. It looks like the perfect solution. Probably will have to narrow something to fit, but we are talking custom here.

I'd get the whole firewall mounted latch mechanism also.

I've seen a '65 Mustang retrofitted with this hardware...it looked great!

One potential problem with the MII...our hoods do not extend all the way to the front. This will require space for the nose of the hood to drop down into. I suspect that the top of our radiator crossmember is living in this space. The GM hoods and the '65 hood do extend over the grill, so no clearance issue.

Something I've been considering is to cut the MII header panel where the hood would cross it, and graft the cut piece onto the nose of a fiberglass hood. This solves the clearance issue for the rear opening hood and gives a bit more of a "classic" (aggressive?) appearance to the MII nose.

TheEvII said:

1986-1991 Buick Lesabre and Park Avenue.

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Thanks, I'd forgotten which car(s) it was.