Well I'm overdue to post an update. Life is like that - it gets in the way of your hobbies. Anyway, I guess a restoration is a journey - and each journey has its twists and turns. Well.....in my case I got ambushed by a bandit trucker and my journey has made a sharp right turn.....
Now in fairness, I was kind'a stupid in not going for an enclosed trailer (worst $400.00 I ever saved), but the driver also contributed to my grief by not securing the load properly and the hood
flew off somewhere east of Albuqurque after he readjusted the load, and moved the car from the bottom to the top. And when the hood flew off it , it bent the cowl where the hinges mount, and the sharp corner of the hood impaled the right rear inner fender before flying off into never never land. That's the short version. The long version fills several pages (see insurance claim comment below)...
Needless to say, the car that left San Diego was not the same car that arrived at this end. And the insurance claim is continuing.....that's another story...
But the good news is I have found another hood and plan to get back at it this weekend. As bad as these pix look, the sheet metal is rock solid underneath - it is literally just surface blush. but, I have decided to have the car dipped to completley clean it and start fresh....
Compare the pix below to the pix in the link in my first posting in this thread.