And a few more pics. I forgot to add, when you add it all up, there is about 28 feet of welding in that hood.
Yes, modern magazines are quite good at 'legitimising' bad or wrong information. They create new 'truths' which catch on, which in turn makes it even harder for people who know the real truth to correct things. It is frustrating.
Slightly OT comment, but it fits with the misuse/misappropriation of terms. Judging from recent decades, I am one of the last living human beings who remembers the first series Buick V8 was originally referred to as “Nail Valve” for several years., not the now ubiquitous term “Nail Head”. It was, after all, the small head diameter of the valve head that prompted the observation they looked more like ‘nails’ than valves. The heads themselves had no relationship to nails. But popular usage, not correct terminology, usually wins. Take for example the popular phrase... “I could care less”......The speaker is trying to say he/she does not care at all. But if you could care less, it follows you do care some amount. As opposed to the correct phrase, “I couldn’t care less”. Carry on.
I saw this one at the Portland roadster show a few years back. One at the 2014 Portland Roadster show that was seriously unfinished but that is better for showing the seam on the hood where they cut it. Pancake hood on an AD at the 2012 Portland roadster show. Truck has too much OT for here stuff to post more photos here.
Without meaning to be argumentative, the only applicable official definition shown in the Merriam Webster dictionary is "to flatten" with no other requirements about how it is done. When we get to using it in a specific (and esoteric) manner in a "slang" type of usage, the question then becomes.......Who gets to officially decide what it means? There really isn't any correct answer, because it gets adapted or evolves if people desire to adapt it. Personally I don't care who uses it and how they use it, as long as both people in the conversation grasp the general idea that someone is trying to convey. Its like asking someone who is thirsty if they want a Coke......everyone knows you don't actually have Coke as your only choice. Esoteric: known only to a few (or officially : intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.) My Machine Shop Cl***room Instructor taught me that word and I never forgot it! Machinists refer to 1/10,000th of an inch as a "tenth"..........incorrect usage for sure, but every other machinist knows what someone means when they say "its "two tenths" undersize. So for my purposes, as long as I get the jist of what someone is conveying to me.....thats all that I care about.
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