MTFCA Forum

There was a discussion awhile back about the protective hood corners. I have two very original 26-7 hoods here. One has nothing there, no holes, no nothing. The other is drilled and protected JUST at the rear corner. It looks nothing like what the parts houses are supplying. Looks like Hank in Tennessee had it right on the money. Perhaps they only used this on flat firewall vehicles, perhaps the change orders would tell for sure when they started or stopped doing it? One picture shows the leather intact, the other shows just the remaining rivet, more like an old fashioned metal piece you would hold papers together with.

That hood corner pad, p/n4054, factory 3A16624 shows in the Parts and Price Book as 2 req'd per car. '27's that I have seen with original pads were on both hood sides.

Agree, the vendor part is way off factory, then again, the Model A used these, and the vendors likely use that style. Many cars of the period used leather pads at the hood edge to protect the body paint, can see these at swap meets, leather in many shapes for that folded over pad.

Rather poor reproductions!


Rather well worn original.... Click on photo to make it go upright, guess this is an Apple Mac thing, image was right when loaded.

I don't have those on my 26 but I wish I had, my father-in-law was showing my engine to a friend and when re-closing the hood he bashed it in to the head light shell and left a small dent.