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Old 02-07-2012, 12:23 PM
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Wink Convert slips to hinged or combo slip & hinged ideas?

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Originally Posted by marks73ta View Post
Thank you Alvin. I used the original '63 hood hinges flipped them upside down with the firewall mounting surface towards the front. This placed the top hood ounting surface on top of the frame rail and the firwall mounting towards the front for an upright mount.
... Mark L
Those are GR8 photos and a neat & simple way to mount the front end.

Reason I asked as I want to convert our glass nose slip joint mount (circled below) to a flip nose or dual slip joint/flip hinge mount. Perhaps I could modify some light weight hood hinges w springs in a similar manner as you have done (photo below).

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. A local welding shop had the car for several weeks and couldn’t figure it out…I even provided the Glass Front-end Hinge website info for their use.