Pictures of Pancaked Hoods & Decks?

Hey,

Anyone have any pictures of( in-progress) pancaked hoods with how much
was taken out of the panel? Hell, finished ones for that matter!

I've gotta ich for a '53 Bowtie, but couldn't live with the humpy hood and
deck after the chop.

Thanx,

S****ey Devils C.C.

 

If you want to check out how one of the simplest ones is hinged come over Thursday and see the Volvo 1800 I've got, it's pancaked, and since it was short run it's pretty "custom" in design.

If you want a '53 car without the bulbous hood but a round roof why not be looking for a '53 Ford or Merc instead of a GM car?

 

Sweet!

 

I haven't got a finished photo because it's not finished

 

sorry i had to

 

Here is a picture with it tacked back together.



Here it is done. I took 2 inches out of the hood, 2 from the fender behind the wheelwell and 2 from the bottom of the fender behind the wheelwell to match the 6 inches the cab was sectioned.

HERE are pictures of how the tilt works.

This one isn't pie-cut, but the work is similar. Don't forget when you pie-cut it that it will move out to the sides and need a filler piece in the middle and it will also move forward away from the cowl and you will have to fill that gap in. I added a piece to the front of the cowl and a filler down the middle.

Another area that can present problems is the under hood brace. I tacked my hood to it in a couple places to help with getting the hood smooth/flat. Some of those welded places have caused stress cracks in the bondo. The hood heats and expands at a different rate than the brace. That is why the factory doesn't attach them to the brace. I solved most of that by making the welds longer, but one still cracked later. I would try and not weld the hood to that brace. Getting the hood right was probably harder than the section on the body as it is difficult to make all the welds on it (limit warpage) and still keep the contour right and get it all flat.

good luck,

Sum

 

I'm not sure if this is exactly what you wanted or not as a pancaked hood. Shoot, it may fit better as a channeld rod or chopped top idea. he,he,he,....couldn't resist.
Sorry
Huey

 

the bunny with the pancake on itshead never fails to make me laugh

 

For those of you who really don't know what a pancaked hood is, it's one that has the cowl, fenders and fascia molded so as to surround the hood, like on a 50s Corvette, a SquareBird, a 61 Continental, or Imperial or, one customized to be that way like Jimmy Vaughn's Caddy



It may also be sectioned or pie cut but that's not what makes it "pancaked"
being completely surrounded by the body is.

 

Hehehe....Lot of funny m'f'ers on this board. The bunny thing made me spew coffee on the monitor....Again. I hate you, Caffeine.

 

I've never heard it defined that way...

What I've always been told/heard/believed was pancaking a hood(or trunk for that matter) was taking a section out of the vertical height of the panel, thus making it shorter... flattening it...(wait for it...) like a pancake.

 

I will graciously accept all of the above as valid definitions of the term "pancaked"!.......as a gesture of advanced experiential wizardry.

 

Hey Doc,

The '52-'54 FoMoCo 2drs all have way too flat a turret for my eye, on a
chopped vehicle. The '49-'54 Bowties work well with other body mods.
unlike the "baroque vulgar" of the '55-'60 period.
The ***** design was a sound one, Frua shoulda jus drawn it much bigger,
and stretched out thoughs killer lines.


S****ey Devil C.C.

 

52pickup knows what he's talkin about. I filled all the seams around the hood on my F-1 but it was not pancaked!. PS that Cad hood was pancaked from the factory!!......OLDBEET

 

That damn bunny gets me every time...hahahah

There's a tech article in issue #5 of Tradional Rod and Kulture that shows one way to pancake a hood on a '52 Chevy. Not sure if this it's the preferred method since I haven't done it, but it looked good to me.

Bryan

 

being the owner of a 51 3100 no matter what you do to them they still look big.
becuzz they are.

 

I took a full 5 inches out of my Gmc hood and refer to it as sectioned

 

yea that would be a section if its is even throughout, a pancake is a pie shaped section taken out...

example: on my 52 chebby pu, the hood is sectioned 4" front to back, but it also has and additional approx 1" taken out of the front, making it pancaked, too.

 

I wonder how much work this would be compared to other body mods, it's one I never see and it really goes a long way towards smoothing out a kustom. Anyone do one? I'm aware it's a ton of work, but prolly not as bad as a chop? Or am I dreaming?

 

me either. i think the good doctor is talking out of his *** again! ...or i could be wrong. it's happened once... i think.