Just thought i'd share some pictures of a neat hood i picked up at the local 'yards. It is a stock Maverick hood with what i believe is a cobra-jet hood scoop (someone please correct me if i'm wrong!). I'm positive i'm not the first to have this scoop on a Maverick, but man does it look like it was made to fit on there! The lines are perfectly parallel and it even has a crease down the middle like the stock hood. The previous owner also cut a hole in the hood for the air filter, which kinda bothers me because i am afraid of water getting on the air filter lid i have on it (can fix that later!). It is a Ford scoop too, not a knock-off. Got the hood and some "sport mirrors" for $60...not bad, i don't think.
Hey CACollo, looking at you mav, you have the same paintjob as mine? does yours have metal flake in it too? Alos do you still have youre old hood, I'd like to look at it and maybe even place an offer... Austin
Hey CACollo, looks good and not a bad deal either I paid $50 just for the sport mirrors at a yard down in Georgia. As far as your concern on the water getting down in the scoop, I guess it depends on the type of air cleaner before I would worry, if you are using the K&N filter lid I guess that would not be the best getting wet but I have a scoop on mine that has the hole cut out in it and I have never had any real trouble with the water getting inside. A few water spots on the air cleaner lid is about it never anything else. Here is a pic of mine
looks like a boss repo hood scoop however its a bit shorter for one though. or it could be a comet one a cobra jet one is my much narrower. see pic below. also real ones have screws studs within the hood scoop to bolt though the hood. it look good though!
I'm not 100% positive, but i'm pretty sure it is a real scoop. It does have the studs, and it has all the ford numbers on the inside. The rust on the scoop is actually because when i found the hood it was tied to the roof of the car with wire...the wire rusted and dripped onto the scoop. I think the scoop is probably worth more than i paid for the hood ($40). My main concern with the water is that i do have a K&N filter lid (i wouldn't have spent the money, but i got it for free from a friend). I was thinking maybe i could just cut a small lip a little ways inside the scoop to divert the water off to the sides and onto the manifold. Maverick-Austin...i forget what they call the color of my paint, but most likely it is the same! It does have metallic flakes in it also (mica). Unfortunately it is a very cheap paint job...and the hood has several large dents in it. The paint is headed south--faded, chipped, cracked--which is why i was not hesitant to replace the hood with a much uglier primered one. I plan on a "do it myself" paint job this summer, this was just the first step. If you want my old one, you're welcome to it!
it is definitely a Comet Gt scoop. Which is the same as a Merc. Cylclone Spoiler and some Torino Gt cars. I have one on my car too
scoops It's a Comet GT hood scoop, also used of the Cougar Elemiators. They used the old scoops on the Comet GTs. I used a 71 Torino Cobra Shaker scoop on my 72 Mav. Looks most excellent.
Maverick-Austin Austin, i'd be happy to just give you my old, stock hood...otherwise it's going to the recyclers...shipping is going to be tricky though, and for the cost of shipping and the probability that the paint won't be exact, you might want to just find one locally!
actually I talked to someone about shipping, Mavman427 i believe. he says that shipping can be via. greyhound bus for about 50 from CA. And paint is no prob, my father is a pro.
