When were hood scoops first used? Any pictures? I'm fighting a hood clearance issue but I want the wagon to look early sixties.
Austin-Healey 100-6, introduced 1956: This was more about clearance for the six-cylinder engine than engine breathing, but as far as I know it is a real scoop.
This would be real. I learned about driving with a functional scoop in my Camaro. Drove it in freezing rain on the way home from college once and couldn't understand where all my power went when the air cleaner froze up.
I never knew that the 55-57 T-bird hood scoops had a removable block off plate. I was checking out a beautiful bird and in the trunk was a piece of metal with a decal on it that says remove for summer operation or something close to that. It's a block off plate for the hood scoop. I always thought that they were fake. I'd have lost a 20 on a bar bet. They are indeed functional.
I don't have a picture of it handy, but Gene Adams' 50 Olds fastback had a hoodscoop back in '57, to clear the blower on his 371 motor...someone else may have a shot of it, was featured in a '57 HRM...so you can have a scoop and even get the late '50s look
Yes they did, so '55 would probably be the first year of functional ones on anything production. I got a couple junk hoods at an auction recently that I bought just to cut the scoop part out to weld into something custom, they're good looking. My '53 Ford has a '58 T-bird scoop welded to the hood where the opening was redone with round rod to make it functional and to eliminate the pot metal insert, looks really nice I think.
It appears he's building a tow vehicle for his old dragster, and wants the tow vehicle to look "right". It also appears that he bought a "late model" small block mopar mill for it, and the only intake that will fit, that works with a carb, is too tall, since it's more of a race piece. A proper period tow vehicle will have a mostly stock, era correct big block in it...??? I'm thinking a 413. Tough situation to be in.
'53 Dodge had an opening to the engine compartment on cars built with the Hemi. Is it a scoop? Dunno...
Yea, but I wouldn't have been suprised if you would have showed up at the HAMB Drags with something like this crammed in there... See ya, -Abone.
Here's a '55 tbird hood scoop I saw-sawed off a hood in '74. I put it on my 55 Wgn and ran it 10 years. Now it's on the garage wall with a few others. LOL
I do believe your memory is correct. We had '51 Packard Henney ambulances in our Fire Department with the straight eights and they had factory air scoops on the hood. That was more than 60 years ago. Normbc9
It's not apparent in the hearse version: http://http://www.packardinfo.com/xoops/html/downloads/1951 Packard Henney Sales Brochure.pdf
Henny would build what ever you wanted. but the scoops were not the norm for them. but Packard did use one on the 52 pan-american show cars. they then put them into production with the introduction of the caribbean.
My 54 dodge has one as well. The scoop has a metal passage that lets cold air pass the radiator towards the top of the old oil bath filter. Its not connected but its kind of a cooler air source for the carb. I'm toying with a shroud/tunnel to connect mine to the carb.
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