Hot Rods Cars without a hood.

Almost too easy, haha!

 

If your Fenders are Fat, Hoods are where it's at...sez no one but me.

On skinny or no-fender rods, even with Killer mills, at least a hood top will carry the original style lines fore and aft. (AND show how much trouble you went thru to align your grill shell with your cowl.)

So let em bend over to take a peek...at least you'll keep some of the weather off that beast.

 

BOTH!


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Went hoodless on our 34 5 window once we dropped the 348 with 6x2's in it and ran my 33 Pickup without a hood for awhile during a really hot summer.

 

I live and drive my stuff in places where it rains at times. At least a hood top is a requirement for me, but then the motor has to look good. Open sides, or no hood rides need to have the right look to start with and once you get past the mid 30s, having the right look to be hoodless gets pretty hard.

No one wants to see my coupe without the hood. Gene

 

Gene's got it, mid 30's can go either way, from mid 30's on need a hood to fill the body lines out.
On a hoodless car, I like to see the top of the induction system, air cleaners or scoops, just below or just above the cowl. To me, a car looks funny without at least a hood top if the carbs don't go above the middle of the firewall. It makes the engine look smaller if it isn't sitting tall and proud.

 

If we're talking "Hot Rod",hood may be some what, about were you live.
From Miami Florida in the 1950s in too mid 60s,any Hot Rod's #1 Feature is big sexyV8 HP Engine with some shiny spots on it,, an to cover it up was, too not be as HOT........a sin..!
No ,I've never had a hood on my Hot Rod an never wanted one,from when I built it in 1959 to now,an still drive.
Flaunt it ,or hide it,really.
No hood=
"It's hot rod Cleavage !!!!!!!!"
You can quote me on that !

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...genized-hotrods.1002926/page-70#post-12647345

Holy Hoodless Hotrods and Customs Batman...in Beautiful BC Canada to Boot...

It's all good, if it looks good Giver...

It may have been @lurker mick who id'd the Custom as a Modded 4dr with a wild Caddy Engine if I'm not mistaken......and I may be but I think not...

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/bccca-jack-williams-chopped-shoebox-in-1955.1001375/

Credit to Photographer, Owner
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My truck when i bought it.

 

Not mine but i like it.

 

We vote no hood

 

Hoodless

 

Hood,

No hood,

 

Looks good both ways!

 

...This Hotrod has been Hoodless as per its inspired design and I have to agree it suits it very well...

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Moriarity... the engine in your 40 look so good, you really should leave the hood off sometimes.
Bodylines be damned.

One of my favorite parts of a hot rod is being able to see a nicely detailed engine. The heart of the beast... the jewel in its setting.

Sometimes I even like seeing the later cars without hoods. Depends. They can look badass or a little goofy. I recently saw a picture of a '49 to '54 model... I forget what it was... that had only the very front portion of it's hood. Had a nice engine to show off. I thought it looked pretty good.

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Heres mine. I do have the top to a hood and its louvred as well but I haven't fitted it yet.

 

My 30 pickup, I like it hoodless, though I might get a 1 piece hood to run with no side sheets, for road trips.

 

No hood for now. Building a top with a bubble for carb clearance.

 

It sure makes it easy to work on the motor!

 

A car without a what?

 

my truck now

 

Mine. JW

 

What about an old fordor.........?

 

No hood. Picked up the top half and I’m going to try it out to see once I do the work needed and paint it.

But for now, we flaunt that flathead.

Cliff Ramsdell

 

My 31 sold a couple weeks ago

 

Some may say it’s not a hot rod. But it doesn’t have a hood! Tons of fun to drive!