Thread: 55.2-59 Hood wont close
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Old 01-07-2020, 03:20 PM   #20
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Re: Hood wont close

It looks like the gap between the fender and the door is noticeably tighter at the bottom than the top meaning that the front of the nose may be slightly low.

I'd still go with that roll it out the door where you can get back and look at it and see if it all lines up right. Take a couple of photos for other eyes to look it over.

Still there are a lot of threads on this board and most every other hot rod or truck board about guys fighting with reproduction sheetmetal parts. Quite often the parts that were stamped in one GM factory as apposed to another don't all fit the same let alone those that were reproduced by an outside aftermarket source using an oem piece for the pattern.
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