1930s Ford lookalike bonnet....

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ANavarro
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1930s Ford lookalike bonnet....

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Good morning: A few days ago, a friend of mine showed me a picture of an old '66 Beetle but somewhat customized. The guy who owned the car had swapped the original bonnet for a fibreglass one wich looked like a 30s Ford.
He even replaced the rear window with an oval shaped one, but kept the original fenders and teardrop front lights. The car looked very nice, and I was wondering wether someone cold possibly tell me where to find any info regarding those bonnets. My friend is planning to build a kind of "hot rod" replica with an old VW he was presented.
Any info would be much appreciatted.
Kind regards...
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Boy - thats a hard one - back in the 70's you could find these old rolls-royce fiberglass hoods for the bugs at JCWhitney - it was easy to find them - much harder now since most folks are into restoration vs. customization. You might want to try JCWhitney and see if they have anything like that anymore. Good luck!
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FOUND IT!

http://www.retro-designs.com/

Page all the way to the bottom to see the hoods for the classic beetles. Enjoy!
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Thank you for the info. Actually, I already knew about....

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...those "Rolls Royce style" bonnets (I'll keep from telling what I think about them, I don't want to seem offensive, :) )

The car I was talking about had a very differente bonnet, a very "round shaped one", looking like a 30s Ford or Chevy coupé. It looked very smart, indeed, not like that boxy ugly Rolls style front hood...!!!!!

Cheers....!!!!
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Not sure where you will find that - I googled for them but came up empty - maybe someone else on the board will be able to point you in the right direction.
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I just can think about a "hand made" bonnet....

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..or something like that, a "one off" limited run bonnet. The name of the magazine where we saw it is "Chrom und Feuer", IIRC, an old custom and bike german magazine where a german guy built an old VW to look like an old 30s Hot Rod car.
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