1971 Dodge Demon Sport Hood Treatment (J54)

Oldmanmopar said
The other picture you posted is not original paint or stripes on the first picture and is not even close to that patina hood or the ad picture. And I never believe a picture of a car in an ad second pic. If I did the 3rd Bahama brochure picture would be correct. The patina hood looks like a winner.

I didn't look at it at first because most of the time you try and baffle me with bull **** like the other picture of the orange car. That car was repainted and has after market side stripes as well. There is many pictures of that car on the web. The 4th to 8th pictures look to be the correct dimensions the 8th having the perimeter stripe.

Not many repaint them the correct way. Hope this helps. I have measurements off the orange hood leaning on the wall if there is any interest.

1 5/8 from the side and 1 5/8 from the front follows the front edge , 1 1/8 from the chrome if its on, 2 1/8 between the two in the center.
the perimeter stripe can be added to the inside of that. Take this info for what its worth, That hood is all original paint. Just hope it helps some Demon restorers in the future.
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The black and white pictures I posted are not from an ad. They were in Road Test magazine, and that was a production 1971 340 car. Obviously, no patina on a brand new car.

I don’t try and baffle you. It’s not my fault you’re easily baffled by common sense and basic facts.

As for the rest of it, the assembly manual is a better source of information than you’ll ever be.

mopowers said
If there's anything I've learned with messing with these cars, it's that there was HARDLY EVER an absolute way they were built. This is one instance where - if it were mine - I'd do it the way that looked best to me and call it good.

davescuda said
Some of those hoods came with the accent line and some did not. Also seen some original hoods differences in the paint layout. Maybe depending on what day of the week it was.

Exactly. Like basic common sense. Every one of those hoods was an individual layout, performed by different painters at different plants over the course of a production run where it seems pretty obvious that some changes were made.

Even in the realm of Ma Mopar’s 1970’s production standards that hood blackout following any kind of tight standard is a terrible bet. The individual nature of how that was done would make it one of the least uniform procedures on the assembly line.

That’s like two cars with a metallic paint code painted on different days at different plants being the exact same color. It would be more strange if they DID match exactly.