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I think that a well done complete all steel back dated car should go for more then comparable short hood IMHO. Having all the new welding techniques, galvanized body, and modernized engineering vs the original long hoods its not hard to see why people backdate. If I wanted to do another backdate again I would pick a shorthood and convert. Im currently doing it right now my RSR and its all steel. So much easier to backdate then to fix the usual rust areas on older one. Ive spent more time fixing the rusted fenders from my old 73 to fit them to the 86 tub. The front and rear backdate took a good weekend. I had my old 73 right next to it so I could reference how the factory did the welding so I could do my best to copy it. Most cant tell the difference either. Unless you are going for an all out 2.8 RSR backdate and dumping ungodly amounts of money into it then using an orig longhood would destroy the value of the car more so then using a short hood from the get go. Seems like there are less and less orig longhoods around these days. And most have mountains of rust repairs to make.
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