Author Topic: Anybody ever put wide 71 moldings on TA hood?  (Read 699 times)

Offline ChallengerHK

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Anybody ever put wide 71 moldings on TA hood?
« on: August 28, 2011 - 08:43:27 PM »
Just curious. Not sure if this is two great tastes that would taste great together or a hideous affront to God.
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Re: Anybody ever put wide 71 moldings on TA hood?
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2011 - 12:29:07 AM »
Now that you mention it; it should've been an option. I think that would look good on a T/A.
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Re: Anybody ever put wide 71 moldings on TA hood?
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2011 - 10:19:32 AM »
Maybe look good with a T/A hood, but wouldn't it conflict with tha T/A stripe kit beginning  up front on the fenders?
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Re: Anybody ever put wide 71 moldings on TA hood?
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2011 - 10:21:30 AM »
You mkae an excellent point. Thanks for talking sense into me  :bigsmile:


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Re: Anybody ever put wide 71 moldings on TA hood?
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2011 - 12:58:01 PM »
What got me started on this, BTW, was looking at a TA and noticing how the chrome lip fed into the headlight bezels. With a 73, I can't do that, at least easily. The "bezel" part on a 73 is the fiberglass header, so it would be a bear to try to chrome that lip. I winder what it would look like with chrome paint on the header and hood lip?


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Re: Anybody ever put wide 71 moldings on TA hood?
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2011 - 01:19:12 PM »
Somewhere I saw where a guy took a pair of used 70-71 headlight bezels and fit them to a 72-74 header panel.  Then he used the 70-71 hood moulding.  I didn't think it looked as good as I thought it would.

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Re: Anybody ever put wide 71 moldings on TA hood?
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2011 - 01:31:50 PM »
Somewhere I saw where a guy took a pair of used 70-71 headlight bezels and fit them to a 72-74 header panel.  Then he used the 70-71 hood moulding.  I didn't think it looked as good as I thought it would.

I had thought about that as well, but I didn't think it would work well either.


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