Another Build Thread - My '32

[J. Robinson]

The next step is to attach the stand-offs and latches to the hood. I did this with the hood off the car. It was just a matter of positioning them where I wanted and welding the ends of the stand-offs to the hood. I used a series of overlapping tack-welds here to avoid warping the sheet metal.

With the hood back on the car, once again I opened one side and reached through with a Sharpie to mark where the hook half of the latch needed to go on the strut bar. I repeated the process on the opposite side. Then I removed the strut bars, one-at-a-time, attached the latch hooks using pop-rivets, and re-installed the bar. With the strut bars back in place, I made some final adjustment on each side by bending the hooks and latches with a screw driver and pliers.

The next-to-last pic shows the latch from inside in closed position. The final pic shows where the weld penetrated the sheet metal which will be an easy fix; the hood is not warped. It also shows that the latch mechanism is completely hidden from view when the hood is closed.