Does anyone know what the slot in the underside frame of the front hood on the passengers side nearest the firewall is used for? Is that to hold the maintenance record???

Not sure what you are talking about. Got a picture?

from your desciption it sounds like a PO cut it to work out a dent in the hood. Never seen a slot in the frame work of the front truck

A picture would be nice

thru hood refueling port

Sounds like someone sat on the lid, the supports beneath get bent down as the adhesive gets separated.

For the fuel door, like on the 914-8's, Can use it as a guide when installing your own....

My "73 1.7 has one too.

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Mine has one as well.

Andys

I have 3 hoods in my shop and they all have them. One from my 6 one from a 73 and one from a 74. I think my 76 has the same thing as well.

Bob

They all have it.

Early prototype design called for a fuel door in the hood. That idea was scraped for production but they didn't see the need to change the tooling for stamping the hood frame ...

Here's a pic of one of the prototype cars that has the fuel door ...

Cool-thanks everyone for your replies-never knew what that was for!!!

This is a newer model with the full passenger seat.

Nope. That's an early euro /6 prototype car.

The funny thing about prototype cars, they have all kinds of stuff that's not production!

Is that yours?
where did you get the stuff to do that? (cap, ring for the hood hole, etc). That looks great!

If i recall correctly, he used a off the shelf (Ford?) part ...

With their first idea, a person would have been dribbling gas all over the hood. This way I get to dribble it all over the top of the gas tank........

chappys fuel door is groovy.