Re: My hood came flyin' off (AKA Trottmann's Curse!!!!!)

From: W . Jack Hilton III (hemi@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Aug 05 1998 - 08:31:08 EDT


AAR Quality Fiberglass Reproductions
4800 Pine Street
Cocoa , FL 32926
407-638-0961

At 08:32 PM 8/4/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey jack do you have any contact infor for them?
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>Thanks,
>
>Chris
>-----Original Message-----
>From: W . Jack Hilton III <hemi@mindspring.com>
>To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
>Date: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 8:28 PM
>Subject: Re: DML: My hood came flyin' off (AKA Trottmann's Curse!!!!!)
>
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>>If you like , I have a pic on my page at
>>http://www.mindspring.com/~hemi/ad1.html for a hood that fits a 93 .
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>>It's by AAR fiberglass in FL . I think they said that the cost was $379 for
>>the hood and it has a design like the old R/T hood scoops from the
>>seventies . It can be routed to the factory airbox to make it functional .
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>>At 08:05 PM 8/4/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Thanks for the info guys but i think were all dammed for laughing at
>>>Trottmann when he busted his hood. Anyways I went out and bought new
>hinges
>>>(11 bucks a piece) and took a better look at the latch in the daylight.
>The
>>>part that you push up on to release the hood was stuck open i sprayed it
>>>with some wd40 and it moves fine now I think i'll replace it ...
>>>the hood's back on for now but its bent and dented pretty bad, it dosent
>>>shut too well anymore since its bent but if you push on it just right it
>>>will snap in. But I think its time for a new one..... Sooooooo how much
>are
>>>we talkin for a ram air hood, what styles are there i've seen the
>pro-glass
>>>hood and another one with a large scoope on the DML pictures page Kuk's 95
>>>Sport is the truck, i dont think he is on the list anymore does anyone
>know
>>>where he got his hood or his e-mail so i can ask him. Are there any other
>>>hood choices for the older daks?? Also how much is it gonna run me to get
>>>it painted?
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Chris (Yet another victim of Trottmann's Curse) Lang
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Rekker21@aol.com <Rekker21@aol.com>
>>>To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
>>>Date: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 5:15 AM
>>>Subject: Re: DML: My hood came flyin' off
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>>>>In a message dated 8/3/98 11:19:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>>>langcj@polaris.clarkson.edu writes:
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>>>><< Has anyone had this happen to them
>>>> before I not sure if i can call this a defect or not since its a 93 with
>>>> 53,000 miles on it, but who knows??? Is there anything I need to know
>>>about
>>>> putting this all back together, I'm not really sure about seals in the
>>>cowl
>>>> and whatnot. >>
>>>>Buddy!! Been there! I was doing about 45 at midnight and it was so
>>>stinking
>>>>loud my ears were ringing for the rest of the night. It didnt break my
>>>glass
>>>>but it put a crease in my header!!(above the glass). I just bought new
>>>hinges
>>>>and put my in progress ram air hood on, the other hood was trashed big
>>>time.
>>>>No problem with the cowl seals, just new hinges.
>>>>Eric
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>>W . Jack Hilton III
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>>HEMI@mindspring.com
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W . Jack Hilton III

HEMI@mindspring.com



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