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Custom Hood Modifications- Converting a Multi-Piece Hood to One Piece

One thing that I’ve planned to customize on Project Pile House from day one was the hood. The hood on the truck is a “butterfly” (as I call it) style hood and was a design that Dodge rolled over from 30’s and 40’s trucks. I have taken a 50’s custom type approach to this truck and that style hood wasn’t going to flow. I decided to disassemble the hood and convert it to a one-piece hood.

Archive, Eastwood Chatter

Where did the art go?

There was a time when car and coach building was more of an artform. Auto manufacturers weren’t worried as much about shaping a car to get the best gas mileage, or to fit the most amount of gimmicky junk in it as they could. These were the days when cars […]