67 SB with BB hood.

[Jon #40768]

Re: My hood has provissions on both sides

I have an original 435 horse car with a tank sheet. My hood has provisions for a prop on each side. In fact the prop is currently on the right side, which is for a sb. Some body work was done on the car about 22 years ago, so the prop my have been moved at that time, however, the hood, I beilive was not replaced at that time as I owned the car at that time. My hood is a GM bb hood.

Jon

[Wayne W.]

Re: My hood has provissions on both sides

This is exactly opposite from what Noland says. Original hoods did not have brackets made into the RH side. How is the backing plate attached to the hood?

[Jon #40768]

Re: My hood has provissions on both sides

I have owned the car for 26 years. I bought the car from a single woman. It is unlikely that the woman had a replacement hood installed. The prop mounts are different. The mounting location on the left side has a mounting pad that is raised from the surrounding glass and has two screw holes with two large head rivits. The right side mounting does not have the raised molunting pad and has two small head rivits that hold the nut bar inside the hood in place. There is no way the right side nut bar could have been added after the hood was adssembled as there is no access hole. The right side mount may have had smaller rivits as the sb hood may be lighter without the scoop. I dont know. I did not know the difference of prop locations when the body work was done 22 years ago, but the work was done by a NCRS member who had judging experiance. I have the Adams book. Who knows?

Jon

[Wayne W.]

Re: My hood has provissions on both sides

I would love to have a picture of the underside of that hood. I seriously doubt that a hood assembled at the factory would have had different rivets though. It just doesnt figure.

[Jon #40768]

Re: It is odd

It is odd, but the holes on both sides of the hood are in exactly the same posssition. What else would bolt to the hood in that place on the right side? Tell me how to post pics and I will or answer my e-mail and I will send them directly to you. I am interested in any comments.

Jon

[mike cobine]

67 BB hood with right side

Here is more for the fire.

This silver Corvette on ebay has the hood for sale. The picture isn't large enough, but it looks like an original hood and the brace is on the right side. You might write to get detailed pictures of that area.




67 hood with right brace

[Wayne W.]

Re: 67 BB hood with right side

I have asked for one. We will see what turns up. Its hard to tell from that picture whether it is a real one or memorex.

[Jon #40768]

Re: 67 SB with BB hood.

Let my know if you did not get my e-mail with the photos.
Jon

[mike cobine]

Re: 67 BB hood with right side

The hood looks real, but whether the right side mount is or not is another question.

There was also another 67 BB style hood for sale that I think they were trying to pass as original but it didn't have the reinforcing around the front of the scoop on the underside. And trying to take that off leaves a definite scar. I didn't bother with that one.

[Jon #40768]

Re: 67 BB hood with right side

Like I said, the car had some repairwork on the front end by an NCRS bodyman about 20 years ago so he could have changed the side. The funny thing is that, as you can see, the car has set about 20 years. I am just starting to go thourgh it. Untill I looked a couple of months ago, I remembered the prop on the left side. Could it have been on the left before the body work was done? I don't know. As you saw in the photos, there are not mounting holes in the left side inner fender. This is an old inner fender as it has the remnents of the A-arm seal stapples. The car never had A-arm seals since I owned the car for the past 26 years. Oh well, who knows. Please let me know if you find anything.
Jon

[Roy B.]

Re: 67 BB hood with right side

My 67 with the BB hood in my SB . I don't know how to send more then one pic. so look at the other two I send.

[Roy B.]

Re: 67 BB hood with right side

I have Vintage Air installed

[Roy B.]

Re: 67 BB hood with right side

The L/S support fender plate uses a srew to hold it to the inner fender, the R/S has the two holes for a plate and srew ? but one was never added. This Corvette has NEVER ever had any body damage. The hood has no recess for the hood support on the R/S or any plate in the hood , like the L/S has. ???
I'm not stating any thing to any one ! just the Pic.

[Wayne W.]

Re: The E-Bay Hood Pic.

OK, Here is the scoop on the E-Bay hood. It is a later, over the counter, hood with the small rivets. The RH mounting has some kind of insert nuts. Definitely not a GM modification.

[Wayne W.]

Re: 67 BB hood with right side

But Roy, Noland, in citing your car as an example of one that was delivered with a BB hood states that " there is no sign of the lower hood support mount on the right inner fender panel". There is in fact a sign. The sign is the holes where the bracket once was. These holes were drilled when the inner fender was prepared for assembly. If they didn`t install a bracket, they didn`t drill the holes. Its as simple as that.