1971-72 Pontiac R.A. hood
 

I bought a hood last fall that I think was bought over the counter since there is no original paint on it, just a coat of black base under the show-paint. My question is what the code on the lip means ?

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Anders All the hoods are the same. there is no difference in a Ram Air hood. Do you have the pan that bolts to the hood? I like the Metalflake! As for the code on the lip. your right it is a replacement hood. That code is a date code. February 21st 1977 https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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Don, I assume you are thinking of this type of pan ? No I don´t have it.
Thanks for the info !

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Anders

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There's a slight difference between the 71 and 72 GTO hood, but from the outside there's no difference. On the leading edge of the hood (underneath), about 4" to either side of center, the 72 hood has indentations about 3" long. You can't see it with the hood down, but very obvious when the hood is open. Again, it's a minor thing, but without checking the code, it's an easy visual way to to tell the difference between a 71 and a 72 hood.

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You learn something every day on this site, Mike !
I didn´t take any more photos on the underside of this 1972 GTO hood, but I took this of the front.
I wonder why they made those indentations in -72 but not on my hood from -77 ?

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Anders

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So is that what a Swedish GTO looks like? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

Is it an original Starlight Black car?

Some of the indentations on other make cars in '71 and '72 were required by Federal law as a result of the hoods sheering the hinge bolts and decapitating the vehicle occupants in front end collisions. The indents were meant as a built-in failure point so the hood would fold at a predetermined point like a folding knife instead of lieing flat and acting as a gullotine blade. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif

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Steve, this is a car I looked at in CT, 2005. It is a W62(GTO) WW5(455 HO etc.) originally Wilderness Green, from Klinger-Warner Pontiac Inc. Ann Arbor MI.

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Steve, this is a car I looked at in CT, 2005. It is a W62(GTO) WW5(455 HO etc.) originally Wilderness Green, from Klinger-Warner Pontiac Inc. Ann Arbor MI.

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Neat car, only 290 WW5's built and this includes both auto and stick cars.

Mike

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I have been working on my -71 Le Mans lately which has 03C on the bodytag. The left front fender has 2A25B71 stamped on the inner lip. Would it have been made the 25:th of February 1971? If so, what does 2A mean?
It doesn´t seem to be coded the same way as the hood does it ?