Alrighty. Currently, I have a Grabber hood, but the front portion of it is quite rusted through. So, I've been looking for either another hood that I can cut the front portion off of and weld it on to mine. Or else I'm looking for a new grabber hood. Anybody know which one would be cheaper? David
I have no Idea what would be cheaper, maybe patching it. But if your not to concerned about cost another neat alternitive might be a Fiberglass Grabber hood. I think there are a few places where you can get them where im going to get mine is www.tokenfiberglass.com
Depends. If you do the work yourself and you can find a donor hood, you'd probably get out of it fairly cheap. On the other hand, You might find a grabber hood cheap as well, but it's not likely. I bought one out of a U-Pull-It boneyard where all hoods are $20 no matter what. That was a great deal but few and far between I fear. I've seen some used grabber hoods on Ebay that were going for over $200 and I wouldn't give 2 cents for, although if you paid a body shop to restore yours, I'd think you would easily approach or exceed that number. I don't know if you're doing a period-correct restoration, but if not you might consider some alternatives, such as the treatment Dennis (Mavaholic) uses like installing a Torino hood scoop on a plain Mav hood. Not only is it very good looking but you can buy those scoops all day long out of catalogs and bolt them on yourself. Just some ideas. Sam
