1952-59 Ford Hood Scoop

Hardly a pic of 55-56 with a hood scoop. Couple of T-Bird...
Anyone added a scoop to their 55-56? Just thinkin'....

 

where did you get that pic 50sboy?

 

Scroll down this page and you will see one.....1stgrumpy's great tri-five Ford thread
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/images-of-tri-five-fords.1210072/page-29

 

Scott Drake Hood Scoops - you can see it in Summit...its steel.

 

I kinda see why there aren't many scoops out there...most don't look so good to me....
This one is low - its a GT350 scoop in steel...might get it and set it on to see how it looks....

 

That's a decent looking scoop, 95% of the scoops out there are ugly as a mud fence. HRP

 

This one looks pretty good. HRP

 

Still looks out of place....like from Pep Boys...(not that there is anything wrong with the scoop or Pep Boys)

 

Personally, if it's looks (instead of function), I think it's hard to beat an early T-bird hood scoop. They just look right mostly because the full size cars and T-birds shared so many other styling cues and lines.

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/1955-ford-coupe/

 

placement is a big issue too. Gotta go to the back of the hood. Hate cutting up a t-bird hood for the scoop...but thats what a cut-off wheel is for...I'm picking up air thru the grille so just for looks and to push heat out...

 

how about louvres? lets the heat out and doesn't spoil the lines of the car

 

That scoop looks a bit like the ones on the late 50s Ford Super Duty trucks. I remember several guys running them on their cars in the 60s.

 

If you're looking for a low profile/subtle look, check out an '83 Mustang GT scoop. Here's a pic I just took a few weeks ago visiting some friends in Florida. I obviously chose to mount it in the cowl induction position.

 

Now that looks great!!

 

I think thenscoop on the 55 is from a heavy duty truck

 

They installed them both ways on the big Ford trucks..

 

55-57 Tbird scoop on a 55-56 fairlane looks too small IMO.
The GTO scoop looks much better.
I just picked up a 58 TBird hood, as seen on Steve Stropes 1957 Wagon, to use on my 56.

 

Same feeling about the t-bird scoop. I saw that 57 at SEMA...thought about that too...

 

When I worked at a Ford Truck dealer between 1971 and 1979 I saw a lot of those Super Duty hood scoops. They were mainly on F-600 and F-750 trucks with the Super Duty engines ( 406, 477 and 534 C. I. engines). I also heard that Pontiac used the same scoop, which they bought from Ford ,to to use on some of their performance cars with big engines. This was in the early '60s.