[Shotimes] Hood question

[John Miller]

> The plastic hood on a '91+ would not wrinkle, it would break.

True, though once you start cutting into one you end up amazed by the 
amount of metal in them, Budd was obviously under orders from Ford to make 
sure the thing was as heavy as a steel hood, that it would crush at the 
same rate as a steel hood in a crash, that it would use the same struts and 
hinges as a steel hood, and the end result came out a lot like a steel 
hood.  The hinges and struts are hung off of big 14ga steel plates 
sandwiched into the structure.

Of course, the way they made them pretty much guaranteed they'd come apart 
sooner or later - the outer skin has a layer of aluminum foil glued to it, 
then the inner structure was glued to the foil.  One side or the other 
would invariably separate from the foil.  If they'd just bothered to punch 
some holes in the foil, all would have been well...

John.