A12 hood flew away…
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LOL I did the exact same thing back in 1969. On my nearly new A12 RR.
I was doing something under the hood, or should I say hood on the roof. I always put it there while doing something in there. I took off down the road hit 2nd and PUFF it was gone, I saw it hit the road in the rare view mirror upside down and spinning like a top. It survived with only minor damage never hit the roof or trunk.
I was doing something under the hood, or should I say hood on the roof. I always put it there while doing something in there. I took off down the road hit 2nd and PUFF it was gone, I saw it hit the road in the rare view mirror upside down and spinning like a top. It survived with only minor damage never hit the roof or trunk.
Almost age appropriate to the car .... and a 'McCoo Happy meal' for one of our hungry members ...
You are very fortunate for only minor damage. We have a customers A12 hood in the shop now that went airborne. It is in much worse shape than what I see in your pictures. The only reason we are repairing it is because it is the born with hood.
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MCODECUDA
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Years ago I was hauling a 70’s Challenger with a fiberglass shaker hood on it. We traveled about 15 miles at 65 MPH and got to our destination only to find that we never installed the 4 hood pins that held the hood on. Boy we were lucky that day. The only thing that I can think of is that the air coming off of the truck must have held the hood down.
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Last fall I took my 62 330 out for a short test run for tranny issues I think. About a 5 mile round trip and was just about to let of the gas for my driveway coming up and heard a Klunk Klunk Klunk over the roof. Looked in the rear view mirror to see my upper windshield trim fly'n and the guy behind me ran over it.
When I stopped in my drive and jumped out to retrieve it the fellow in the car behind apologized and said he couldn't help it. I said I understand,...we're good, and proceeded walking to get it. After getting close to it I watched another fellow run over it even tho it was smack dab in the middle of the lanes where the pass, no pass lines are and the trim was fairly parallel to those lines!
OH!! You dirty rat! ...I shot him with both my finger pistols a half dozen times
When I stopped in my drive and jumped out to retrieve it the fellow in the car behind apologized and said he couldn't help it. I said I understand,...we're good, and proceeded walking to get it. After getting close to it I watched another fellow run over it even tho it was smack dab in the middle of the lanes where the pass, no pass lines are and the trim was fairly parallel to those lines!
OH!! You dirty rat! ...I shot him with both my finger pistols a half dozen times
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That sucks.
not so famous bob
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that sucks , but we've all done stupid stuff , I know I have , more than once ...
Tony Tee
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That reminds me of a red 70 charger r/t 440 6-pack car that I didn't buy because the seller took the car for one last ride before I showed up with $900 cash the next day. He forgot about the pins and the hood destroyed the windshield. And he wouldn't lower his price. So i walked away. This was about 1980. Not a deal back then with all the rust and damage back then. But I must say, That car was unbelievably fast. Oh well!
j-c-c-62
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Not sure this fixes the problem of having to remember pinning the hood, but at least with AeroLatches I can see them open from the driver's seat.
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Yeah but they don’t look old school cool.
j-c-c-62
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The driver has the old school look well taken care of.
I took the new car cover off mt GTX and took the car for a drive. I was about a mile from home going down main street in the little town that I live in when a guy start's yelling and pointing at the back of my car. Yep my new expensive cover was somehow hooked to the bumper and dragging behind the car. Not only was it embarrassing but the cover was damage quite a bit.
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Yep, same thing I used to do. Take the hood off, put the clips temporarily back into their pins, work on the car.
Later, you can't put the hood back on without taking the clips back out of the pins. Great for people suffering from
CRS (can't remember shiyat) syndrome.
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