who else had a big hood scoop on their car in the '70s-80

[Auggie56]

 

[Outlaw525]

Early 80's I had a 2wd Warlock pickup with the 440, 4 speed and Dana out of a wrecked '69 Charger R/T. It had a big snorkel hood scoop bonded to the hood. Unfortunately all my old car pictures were the victims of an ugly divorce.

My GTX still has the one that it had in the late 70's when it was street raced.

 

[matthon]

I put this scoop on my Barracuda a few years back, original old school scoop off a Duster in a junkyard.
Now I run this old school homemade Detroit News scoop.

 

[KiwiKid72]

As a teenager I had a P76 Leyland with a 350 Chevy engine that poked out through the bonnet so needed a hood scoop.

 

[thehemikid]

1986-7

 

[oldkimmer]

74 duster with a Hemi scoop. I had a 68 dart with a 6 pac scoop.

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[eldubb440]

awesome thread........ damn we were cool

 

[Coelacanth]

I never had a hood scoop on any of my cars. I never liked the snorkel scoop design but the 6-pack hood on certain cars looks great...like maybe a Challenger or B-Body other than a Charger. I think putting a scoop on the 68 - 70 Charger hood design with the beautiful scallops is blasphemy; but I realize it's necessary to get more clearance under-hood. There's not much room under there.

Back in my high school days, there was a guy with a Camaro or something who bolted a chrome air cleaner on top of his hood. I guess that was "being a ricer" before the word was invented...

 

[OneWheelPeel]

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This isn't the car I had, but I don't have a picture of it handy. Mine was all red, no two tone, but the repaint someone did they did a black stripe that covered the scoop and related hood area. It looked sharp, they found red seats to go into the grey interior too. Anyway.....
From the factory that scoop is actually a detriment because there is no actual hole in the hood. It's all dress up show.
Mine was swapped to a 351W. Cut a hole in the hood and rolled the edge(looked factory!) so that with a slim air filter housing(just a generic type look alike edelbrock style open air filter element with a hat style) the factory hood would still clear.
From the front you could see the pleats in the air filter.

So it went from basically an aero-catch detriment to almost a ram air type.

My 85 GT had that same scoop, didn’t come with it but I found one at the JY and put it on. This was in the late 90s tho.
Last summer I started mounting one on my 77 Corvette, then bought the Coronet and the poor vette sits with a halfass scoop install since then.

 

[kiwigtx]

I only ever had scoops on two of my cars.... from the '80's.....

and from the '90's ....... until not that long ago........

Licence plates were the same on both - owned them since 1987.

 

[Hey-O]

Only did what I had to do, to get the hood to close. Never had a hood for show, only go.

 

[chargervert]

A guy I know had one on a mid seventies Cutless,and it was just for looks. There was no hole cut in the hood underneath the scoop. When he removed the scoop from the hood,a bunch of his friends had thrown their junk mail and old sales fliers in it!

 

[Hey-O]

A guy I know had one on a mid seventies Cutless,and it was just for looks. There was no hole cut in the hood underneath the scoop. When he removed the scoop from the hood,a bunch of his friends had thrown their junk mail and old sales fliers in it!

I used cowl hoods, 2 or 4 inch.

 

[chargervert]

His was one of those pro stock scoops.

 

[Armyvet25]

 

[gkent]

Made the mold from my original hood then popped out two 'glass one's. The scoop is a Harwood - molded in. The car had a tunnel ram on it - hence the scoop, but that motor blew up so my buddy loaned me this one with a six-pack. I still have the hood up in the attic.

 

[chargervert]

Made the mold from my original hood then popped out two 'glass one's. The scoop is a Harwood - molded in. The car had a tunnel ram on it - hence the scoop, but that motor blew up so my buddy loaned me this one with a six-pack. I still have the hood up in the attic.

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That was like the scoop on the Cutlass that they used for a mail box. There was Burger King wrappers in there too!

 

[Budnicks]

I had the Grumpy Jenkins 'Harwood' P/S Hood scoop molded on my 68 Charger,
2x4bbls on an inline intake, (don't remember the mfgr)
with 1" phenolic open spacers & N2O plates
it had 2 x 660 Holley center squirter tunnel ram carbs,
that'd stick outside the hood otherwise, didn't want to run without a hood
& Charger hoods were plentiful & cheap back then,
hell could by a whole car for $500-$1500

had a bunch of cars with a fiberglass 6bbl hood or scoop added to a steel hood
or cars with a bent up homemade sheet-metal hood scoop, like a WO style cars had

prior to the 'blown motor' phase

Cops in Antioch Ca frowned on it, anything without a hood you were a target
they hated my car when I had the blower & FI sticking out
several of them lived on my street, & I was knowns as 'heartless Bart'
I'd drive my car to the Antioch PG&E powerplant for work & fire it up at like 5:45am
& it was loud, had to rap the throttle a couple times, when warming it up...