What do you call those metal panels that I 've seen so much of lately... they are under the hood and basically hide the engine, everything but the intake. Usually billet or painted artsy fartsy. I don't want em! I just wanted to know what they are called (so I can think nasty thoughts about them). Lately, I go to car shows and look under open hoods and can't even see what engine there is due to some extra metal. Some of the custom work to make thses often looks pretty good, but I just don't get it.
It's for political correctness so fans of different engines aren't offended. Or to hide the shame of another ....SBC....
I don't know what they are called either. Some of them really have a ton of work put in them, though. Pretty high up the gayness factor for sure!
After spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars detailing an engine they bend up sheet metal or use old aluminum suitcases or refrigerator boxes or coolers and cover it all up...or are they so detailed??
I thought that the hood was for covering the engine, why the hell would you put something else over it to get in the way of everything? Well, unless you're a builder who knows your customer has no clue how to work on his car and you can bill him extra every time you have to take that thing back off.
These things are brought to us by the same folks who want women covered up too. Give me a fully dressed flattie or a multi carbed hemi any day over some shrouded hidden piece of rich man's crap. I say if you got it, show it off, don't hide it!!!
It's a place for the damn stuffed crying baby thing that usually leans against the tire to lay down and not get oil on the clothes that are a drop dead match for what the owner and his wife are wearing in the lawn chairs behind the car. I hate those damn things, and the dolls too.
Its called an -I dont know anything about motors so i paid some guy alot of money to make this shiny thing-cover
Today they would be called a very bad idea, in the '90s they were simply a bad idea, in the '80s they were ...well a bad idea, somethings just dont change
I must be going to all the right car shows because I've yet to see one of these things in person. Why in hell would you want to make your car look LESS like the machine that it is? I suspect because the owner didn't actually do the work themself. Boy, am I a cynic or what?
They're known as the Gold-chainer Checkwriter VisaUser Engine Cover - their purpose is to cover up anything that the fake-tan owner cannot answer questions about - in other words - they cover up everything but the hood latch plate. Those things are gay...and they are the ID of a TIThead with all dollars and no sense. dj
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