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I appreciate everyone's opinions here...it helps me think of all the possibilities, good and bad.

Rod, I hear ya! I hope to establish the renderings myself in the near future and I hope to mock it up with a lot less rise. The blocks in the pics probably raise it up near 2 inches and that's too much. I would be going for a bulbous look, but one that the extreme Chevy truck lover would have to take a second look to tell what was off. Then again, I don't want the hood to look like the hinges are sprung and it's just riding high in the wind.

I am tore between the "challenge to do something different while pushing my metal working abilities" and the "time and risk factors in scrapping two decent hoods without a 3rd hood to fall back on". I know I can do the metal work. Maybe I can come up with a really trashed hood that could be sacrificial but yet still allow me to cut the top off and just lay it on one of my better hoods for a look-see.