After seeing ROOT in his Oh-so-Cool black car...I am thinking about front hood pins and would liek to see the various types use.

Thanks

I'll play.
here is the mount (aluminum pin of course):

Here is the exterior:

Welded triangular piece in place.

Wait a minute Karl!!! That's a 75 or 76 chassis!!!!

Looks very clean and nice. Now let's get that thing on the road OK?

QUOTE (9146986 @ Sep 30 2005, 09:53 AM)

Wait a minute Karl!!! That's a 75 or 76 chassis!!!!

It's a '75...noticed that lip eh? Check out his site for all the details and drool-worthy pics!

I kinda have a mental problem with hood pins. Betty once described them as "nipple rings for cars". So now when I see them I think "Ow!"

I have pins in the rear....at the front only, and dzuts on the front hood

front...5 of these rubys total.

I've none of theese on my teener, but the pic shows factory originals

other car, but factory original, too

same car, closer view

same car, other view

famous dealer built car, only 2 pins

We went with only 2 pins instead of 4 pins due to weight.
thats why my car doesn't have the front pins in the normal "corner" area. We decided to use the normal corner area, you really would need to have 4 pins.

but.... since we were only going to have 2 pins, then frontal air sneaking under the front lip would be the most important area to have pinned.

thus we went with the non-traditional location.

brant

I have the same ones as Brant and also only used two, but in my case not really due to weight (the car still has steel lids so it's not like a few grams will help much). Currently I have left the stock latch in place so the pins are just an extra safety measure i.e. in case the car gets bumped or tweaked and the latch pops. Plus they look kinda cool.

Mine are like the factory originals, I went with 4 to keep the hood down tight at speed. I plan on making rectangular scratch plates when I get the car back from being painted. (Soon I'm told). Since my decks are both fiberglass I figure I will have to rivet the plates since screws won't last long. I hope to be able to post pics in the near future. JP, did you screw your scratch plates?

Yeah, #6 (IIRC) SS machine screws, washers & lock nuts on the backside.

Kerry- Just saw your post on pins.
Here's a shot of the 'stealth 914' directly from the front.
With the pins above the lights and front trunk seal installed..
I got this pucker in the middle and the whole front
edge is slightly up (1/8"-3/16")

So I made another set of square S.S. scratch plates to put
them in the bottom corners too! Otherwise I'll need to do some
Bending and Banging! to make it fit right.

This shot is kinda cool! You can catch the pin in the corner?