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Eliminate fender beading?

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I also have ideas for latches.
I want the latches to be internal, but I also need a means of opening the bonnet should one of the latches fail.
 
So... what happens if the pull cable slips or one side jams?

Do you have to remove the dash to take the mounts out from the inside?
 
I just can't imagine that you would want to remove it. Other people are spending lots of good money and time to try to put it back on after someone had taken it off in the past.

IMO, is it ugly? Absoutely not. Does it cause rust? Not if treated properly, and certainly not more than one that has been removed and filled.

Modifications to a car can be much cheaper than returning it to it's original state. This is true of body as well as engine mods.

If you don't want beading, buy a glass bonnet and sell your metal one to someone who would appreciate beading.

Donn
 
I hadn't read this thread, so back to the first part, at a KC British Car Show several yrs ago there was a black bugeye with no beading, it was absolutely beautiful.
 
Yep Ben, the Autoloc one is long, but you can remove the safety latch portion to shorten it.

Donn, If the MkI sprite was a limited production car, then I certainly wouldn't be hacking on this on, but there are plenty of them and plenty of people that are serious about preserving proper "specimens". It may help you to understand that I grew up helping my father build custom street rods and modified muscle cars. He has only "restored" one car in his life. And even on that one he maid some deviations from original. But, I do appreciate and respect your opinion. Thanks.

I still can not decide...

In some ways the beads on the back "pull your eye" to follow the curve of the car, but from other angles it makes the tail lamps look like they are pointing out.
 
If you like the look of external latches, then the spitfire ones are fine (just be sure not to let people use them as lift handles.)

I'm considering an internal latch, but there is no a lot of room in the footwell.

Here is what the "import tuners" are using:
https://www.deftracing.com/aerocatch_hood_pins/index.htm
 
Yow!
I think it took $25 worth of metal and hardware for mine. And an afternoon.
 
My tilt set-up is simple and neat! 1 horiz. tube across bottom, leading edge of bonnet (molded into bonnet glas) + 2 L brackets, as diagrammed below which bolt through bumper-bracket holes in frame horns (fore & aft adjustable too!)
 

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I had a similar rust problem at one time, but it was easy to remedy with a wire bottle-brush once all was apart, initial packing of the tube with grease and regular lubrication has eliminated that headache /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thumbsup.gif.

PS: The rust is not that apparent because it builds up inside the tube and makes things a bit stiff!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/eek.gif
 
These look like they would be easy to make up, or have made up. Only needs a couple of plates cut.

I surely like the tilt forward idea, makes working so much easier.
 
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