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Old Jun 6, 2017 | 11:55 PM
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Hood holes

Can someone tell me what was mounted on the inside of the hood of my '66 F250 Camper Special? Was it a light maybe? See attached photos of holes.
 
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Old Jun 7, 2017 | 09:57 AM
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Those holes are on all of our hoods - reason: still unknown afaik. It's been brought up before but I'm not going to try to search for it.

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Old Jun 7, 2017 | 10:54 AM
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[QUOTE=TA455HO;17245193]Those holes are on all of our hoods - reason: still unknown afaik. It's been brought up before but I'm not going to try to search for it.

Chad

Lol. Okay. Good enough. Thanks Chad
 
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Old Jun 7, 2017 | 11:48 AM
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I had the thought that Ford did that to allow them to put the turn signals in the hood but abandoned the plan before designing the hood panel.
 
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Old Jun 7, 2017 | 12:37 PM
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Hood latches on really big trucks.? We had a couple of F900 tractors in the bomb dump in Vietnam and I have a faint memory of them having more than one latch. But that was 50 years ago, so I could be wrong about that.
 
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Old Jun 7, 2017 | 03:28 PM
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Hood light?
 
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Old Jun 8, 2017 | 07:26 AM
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A little long but you can see the latches.
 
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Old Jun 8, 2017 | 08:50 AM
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Yup, once you start to look at that big brute, you'll notice that the height of the rad means a normal center latch wouldn't work, so they have LH & RH latches.
The RH one is visible @ ~2:09 (latch is directly in front of the red stick being used to hold the hood up) & the LH one is visible @ ~2:27.
 
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The 1964-1972 MPC makes it seem like the dual latches might have applied to

F800/1100 and T700/950

Also listed in 1957-1963 MPC for some models. Good to know.

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Old Jun 8, 2017 | 09:44 AM
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1961/66 F800/1100 & 1967/69 F800/1000 use a different hood than 1961/66 F100/750.

These F800/1100's use two hood latches.
 
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Hood

Originally Posted by NumberDummy
1961/66 F800/1100 & 1967/69 F800/1000 use a different hood than 1961/66 F100/750.

These F800/1100's use two hood latches.
I suspect that it is the same basic hood for all of them. I think they just added those three pieces on the bottom to get it to conform to those big fenders and radiator.
 
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