Re: Meeting with an original owner...a very visit.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ZLP955</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
Looks like the car originally had a flat hood (pic 7 of the first post), are you going back to that? </div></div>
Yes, the car was born with a flat hood and a rear spoiler as seen in the early shots. Kym later removed that spoiler but also added the cowl hood. He told me that around 72 he ordered it from Bowes & Herron Chevrolet and that same exact hood is still with the car today. He made it functional as well and shared a story about that with me yesterday. He said in racing S/S, if you had a cowl hood on the car it had to be functional. He found that out after going through tech in Seattle where the tech inspector brought a group of racers over to his car one morning and said to all of them; Here guys you see this, if you have a cowl hood on your car "it better be functional" with this rear flapper and the solenoid installed. Needless to say everybody showed up at the next couple races with functional hoods in Super Stock class.
I have a spare flat hood I may paint and put on the car someday, but will leave it as Kym had it for the interim.
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