Does anyone make a hood that fits?

[Custom Hearse]

I'm looking for a hood for the AMT '55 Chevy Bel Air S/M.

The one that comes with the kit is too small, and doesn't fit well. I'm hoping that someone out there makes a stock resin hood or another kit has a hood that will fit. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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  davezinn said:

never had a problem with the stock hood fitting right in this kit, but who knows with AMT nearing the end.

if you want hoods with scoops there is plenty available for this kit.

Dave

This is the fit of the hood that came with the kit. It's really bad....

I'm building a movie car, and it doesn't have a scoop on it. Thanks for the response Dave.

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  davezinn said:

that is pretty bad!

shimming the sides with styrene will be fairly easy and is how i'd fix it. if you use something like Tenax 7R then it will go pretty quickly.

are you the one doing the '55 from "Sometimes they come back"?

Dave

I thought about adding sheet plastic to the sides. I may have to go the direction.

How did ya guess which car I was doing?

Ya must be psychic!

[Guest Gramps-xrds]

Ya know, I have prob 5 of those kits and never noticed anything wrong with the 3 I have built, but I did open the ones still in the box and 1 of them does have a gap of .030. These are all old kits from yrs ago not re-issues. Like Dave said, it's a simple fix with a strip of .030 plastic.

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  Gramps-xrds said:

Ya know, I have prob 5 of those kits and never noticed anything wrong with the 3 I have built, but I did open the ones still in the box and 1 of them does have a gap of .030. These are all old kits from yrs ago not re-issues. Like Dave said, it's a simple fix with a strip of .030 plastic.

That's probably what I'll have to do. I just hate the thought of having to repair something that is so off....

Thanks Bill.

[Custom Hearse]

I guess I'm gonna set this one aside for now. I just don't feel like doing a lot of scratchbuilding. All I want to do is build one kit straight out of the box for now....

Thanks Dave and Bill for your responses.

[84vanagon]

Hi Marshall.

The reason the hood doesn't fit is a lot of the tooling was based on

the old 55 Nomad. Unfortunately when the new body was made nobody

bothered to see if the carry-over Nomad hood would fit.

At one time there was a corrected hood in resin. I want to say it was

by Replicas and Miniatures of Maryland (not 100% sure though). They

don't have a web site, but you might look through MCM to find a phone

number.

[Custom Hearse]

Thanks Don! I'll have to check and see if they have one. And thanks for the history on the hood. It kills me that no one bothered to see if it would work O.K....

[84vanagon]

Anytime, Marshall.

By the way is that your hearse on the Professional Car board?

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  84vanagon said:

Anytime, Marshall.

By the way is that your hearse on the Professional Car board?

I've got several there.... Which one?

[84vanagon]

Oops, I meant the blue Fleetwood in your avatar.

[Custom Hearse]

It was going to be.... LONG STORY....

[Rick Schmidt]

I checked out an idea thinkin I was gonna be slick. Figured since everything else from the Revell 55 fits the AMT why not the hood, but dagnasbbit its got even more of a gap lol