Any lift off hood dislikes

[8formulas]

In my garage, the hood goes on the roof with a very thick, very soft blanket. At a car show, I agree with gkent. It doesn't go on the roof. I set it up with hood prop rods. PITA but it's safer (and it looks cool)

 

[33 IMP]

Having had a lift off, I'm absolutely terrified of putting the hood on the roof. You may think it looks cool and "racey" but a slight breeze will quickly change your opinion! Yeah sure, there's "that guy" who's been doing it without incident for 50 years. But do you want to risk it with YOUR car ?!?

I've owned a A12 for forty years. Haven't put the hood on the roof once. (Putting it on is one thing, getting it off is another! )
I might have put the Tina's steel hood on the roof, I can't remember for sure. (It's lighter and smaller than the A12, and has a nice hoodscoop for handles)
And where I'm living now...... a hood on a roof could end up blocks away in the wind!

 

[BeeFast]

I used to use moving blankets on the roof. No more. Almost blew away at a car show at the shore. Prop rods are used now.

 

[33 IMP]

If I was gonna put a hood on the roof, I'd plan on ratchet-straping it to the door handles!

 

[not so famous bob]

Having had a lift off, I'm absolutely terrified of putting the hood on the roof. You may think it looks cool and "racey" but a slight breeze will quickly change your opinion! Yeah sure, there's "that guy" who's been doing it without incident for 50 years. But do you want to risk it with YOUR car ?!?

I had the lift off hood setting on the top of the old hemi car at the drag strip , and the wind came up and caught it , got to it before it did any damage tho , didn't do that again ...

 

[Bird 426]

I like the hood hinges on my A 12 hood. I did remove the springs. Don't know who or where they were installed.

 

[gkent]

I like the hood hinges on my A 12 hood. I did remove the springs. Don't know who or where they were installed.

When you close the hood, doesn the back of the hood drop and sit where it should ?? Mine does not want to drop into place - it needs to be pushed down the last inch.

 

[Rich H.]

Non A-12 content:

Back in 1990 in Michigan I daily drove my GTX with a lift off hood, and had no indoor storage, no indoor parking, and no indoor place to work on the car. At all. Imagine the whole car covered with about 3/4 inch of ice at 5:00 am, you need to go idle in traffic at 3mph for two hours to go work your crappy 8 dollar an hour job 20 miles away, and you can't even get inside the car. Finally you pound on the car enough to break the ice and you get inside, and Luckily the car starts (with the old style starter, and with points ignition) so you don't need to wail on the front end of the car to take the hood off, but then you ask yourself...."when's the last time I checked the oil? Hmmmm....."
That was me.

I did pull the hood a few times in windy conditions, and regretted it.

I went back to a stock steel hood for awhile after that fiasco and sold the fiberglass hood.....over time I read up on what it would take to convert to hinges, bought another cheap hood, fiberglassed in a couple pieces of angle iron to allow it to be bolted to the hinges, and that's how it has been ever since.

Of course the car never saw any winter driving after that one season when I had no choice, but I never thought the car would be improved at all, or that I would enjoy it more by going back to a lift off hood and I greatly prefer the convenience of hinges.

 

[WileE]

Do what YOU like, not merely to have the ability to open a hood just because some stranger wants to see your engine.

 

[440beep]

Very true. Ever since having the car and the Six Pack I’ve wanted the lift off hood. But the car show hassle is giving me big reservations now. I don’t need a third hood, so will probably skip getting one.