Rare hood?
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From: Angier, NC
I was thinking the same thing on the rails.
That is a custom louvered hood that someone made.
I dont think you could even buy them like that back in the day.
It took a lot of work to measure them all out and then press them into the hood.
Back in the 50's that was the thing to do.
Dave ----
That is a custom louvered hood that someone made.
I dont think you could even buy them like that back in the day.
It took a lot of work to measure them all out and then press them into the hood.
Back in the 50's that was the thing to do.
Dave ----
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If those vents are functional that might be a bad day for your engine. Friend left a 400 out in the rain and all the water leaked by the distributor neck and into the block.
That front bumper's a nice one. You don't see many old trucks in junkyards around here.
That front bumper's a nice one. You don't see many old trucks in junkyards around here.
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From: East Central Ia
A friend had his hood done back in the day. The inner structure has to be cut out to get the hood in the louver press. Then needs to be welded back in after the stamping. Believe the cost of the louvers at the time was $2 a piece. Then with the cutting, welding and paint. Hard to slip a couple of house payments under your spouse's nose back then. Nice looking hood.
Close as I can tell, looks like 132 louvers.
Close as I can tell, looks like 132 louvers.
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From: Central Florida
Nostalgic 50s style hot rods are still quite popular. Although they tend to be 30s or 40s models, I'm sure someone would love to have that hood and be willing to pay a fair price for it. The whole thing looks like a very nice parts truck that could be bought cheaply. I'dlook into it if it were close to me.
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Explorer hood ornament yes OEM, strips maybe. Louvers NO way OEM. X1000 get the bed rails. They are worth more than the complete truck and the louvered hood.
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What's the most interesting to me is this must have been done many many yrs ago - the hood was painted after the louver work yet it still has the factory explorer stripes on it...so it needed to be painted when the stripes were still available from Ford or someone masked and painted the center of the hood up to the stripes perimeter. Further the hood paint is faded with the rest of the truck - indicating same enamel paint of the same paint code was used....once again indicating this was done many many (30+?) yrs ago.
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In 1983, Ford updated the horn part numbers (E3AZ-13832-A Hi Pitch / E3AZ-13833-A Low Pitch) and changed the design of the brackets.
Dunno if any of these horns are repro'd, but there are 10's of 1,000's of vehicles in junkyards with the same horns.
*Mid 1970's Thunderbird's, Lincoln Town Cars and Continental Mark IV's had triple horns.
*1960's/70's Ford Cortina & Zephyr were imported from Britain, 1971/77 Mercury Capri & 1978/80 Ford Fiesta were imported from Germany, all these cars have different horns.
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