Help identifying hood

[paul]

Metal frame, cloth fabric fiberglass

[paul]

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[gt350shelb]

Its tough to see the grain  in the glass  from the  photos  but the edges do not look original but  it  may have been repaired./ maybe late 80s repro.

[paul]

Yep, very hard to see the cloth texture in these pictures. Poor quality pictures and lots of primer on hood too.

[SFM6S087]

At a glance it looks like an original hood to me. Assuming it really is cloth. That's hard to tell in the pictures. Hopefully one of the real experts will chime in about the possible originality.

If it is original it would appear to be from either a 1965 or an early 1966 car. That based on the rivet holes for the hood pin plates. Those holes appear to be in the rough clock orientation of 2,4,8,10 o'clock. That would allow the hood locking clip to insert pointed directly at the windshield as was common to the 1965 and early 1966 cars. The later 1966 hoods had rivets at the 3,6,9,12 o'clock positions; causing the hood locking clip to point at an angle to the windshield so it didn't sit on the rivets.

Steve

[J_Speegle]

IS that date from the first picture 1 18 3W?  Hard to tell for sure

At least one feature on the hod frame suggests right now ( in the middle of chasing down the details) that its possibly  a later 66 hood if its an original

[SFM6S087]

IS that date from the first picture 1 18 3W?  Hard to tell for sure

At least one feature on the hod frame suggests right now ( in the middle of chasing down the details) that its possibly  a later 66 hood if its an original

That looks like 1 15 W3 to me

[paul]

1st pic: Date is 1 15 3W stamped in reverse.

[TLea]

Crush ribs at front suggest later 66 frame (not 65 or early 66)

[paul]

So maybe January 66 hood?

[J_Speegle]

So maybe January 66 hood?

The hood was likely made maybe in Feb (got to have time to ship a group of frames, then set up and make a batch of Shelby hoods when they were needed from the supplier) or later 1966 given the date of the frame and the other features.

Tim is referring to the reliefs in the front edge of the inner structure. There were three versions of this detail from none, to small ones, to the later full/large ones

At least that is the pattern that has emerged comparing both the Shelby's and the source (Mustangs) of the hood frames

[SFM6S087]

I reply #7 I stated that I believed this hood to be a 1965 or early 1966 based on the hood pin plate rivet holes. I'm now convinced I was wrong. The others posting since then know a lot more about this than I do. And their spotting of the crush ribs near the leading edge is much more significant to the identity of this hood. I now agree with them – mid to late 1966 – not 1965 or early 1966. Thanks to those who jumped in and corrected the record.

Steve