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December 19, 2005: With the best of intentions, I cleaned the dead birds out of the woodstove and fired it up to make the garage habitable.
Then I tackled the hood. First off, the cheap clamps you get at Harbour Freight aren't worth buying. I persevered in my hammering of the flange along the bottom edge of the hood. When I tried it on the car, it looks as if I was slightly off in my location. I was paranoid about making the hood a bit too big. Turns out I had the opposite problem and ended up a bit too small. I was not happy when I saw the gap (1/8" to 1/4" estimated) between the hood and the top of the body. can I still use this hood or will I have to start over? I don't know. I'll take another look tonight and see what I think. I'll take pictures too.One other option for the hood would simply be to cut the louvres out of my original and rivet the panel back in the other way around. It wouldn't be the most attractive setup though.

With regards to suspension, John Grimberg contacted me and is willing to help out with machining a custom rocker. Time to fire up the computer and figure out what that rocker should look like then!

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