1972 Duster Project - Back From The Pasture

I'll take some pictures with the hood open to show where the hood pins are mounted. The kit is an "Authentic Mopar Restoration" part. All stainless, nice kit from 521 Restorations.

Pretty simple install after a little research here on A Bodies. Interesting enough, the passenger side fender on this car had a dimple located exactly where the pin was supposed to go. We replaced the driver side fender from a donor 73 car and it did not have the dimple. So we simply measured it out to the same location. Basically they are mounted directly in front of the inner hood bumpers dead center in the fender/radiator support. The hood has openings in the inner portion that makes it obvious where the pins should be located. The tricky part was installing the lower nut on the pins as this car did not have the cut outs in the radiator support to make it easy but we overcame that.

We can't wait to see it in full color either Rustycowl. The B5 is allot of fun to shoot. Beautiful color. As for the exhaust tips, we just went with where the mounting holes in the frame told us to go. The exhaust system is a Summit kit we bought for ~$250. The tips are as correct as we could find stainless. As this used to be a single exhaust car, we purchased the correct hanger mounts for both sides and bolted them into the holes on the frame where they were meant to be by design. Again, a little research here on A Bodies went along way. We really didn't have much choice how far they stuck out. That's where physics said they should be.
I do however wish they stuck out just a little further because this old engine is smoking the bumper a bit. :lol: