Been thinking about the pronounced hood, on Jim St Pierre’s 1946 Mercury, for a while now and while looking at the mocked up grille and bumper. It was just to “nose heavy” to be left alone. =0

Jim’s hood was originally made in three pieces, likely to hold stamping costs down after the war. Jim never liked this seemingly out of place bump in the hood, so out it came. Considering the poor work executed on it in the past, it will actually be easier to fix this way,…  and Jim gets a full kustom hood.

Decided to narrow it in the front by 1 inch. While mocking it up I realized that, if I overlaid the relatively undamaged front piece that I cut out and shaved the front hood trim, I’d be pretty close to the grille shape which is a huge bonus!! =D

As I’m securing this overlay piece to the nose of the hood, I was able to roll in the top front sides and push back the nose to about an inch, drastically reducing that “nose heavy” feel.  This will save many hours vs. the pie sectioning of the hood that I was anticipating!! Here’s a quick video so you can see the rough mock up.

Would love to hear your comments. How did you customize your hood?

Thanks for hanging at Customikes!!
K. Mikael Wallin
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