I spent last weekend working on the hood again, and got the crossmember out so that I could repair the dents and the crossmember itself. It was pretty much beyond repairing nicely as it was crushed and snapped so I hammered and bent it to as close to correct as I could and tacked it back together. I think I’ll end up having to make a new one but it’ll do for now. I also got the worst of the dents out on the drivers side. The front lip was buckled and split so I got it back as best I could with a prybar and lump hammer. At that point I called it quits for the weekend.

The plan for this weekend was to try and get the edges straight so that it would fit before I carried on with the dents. The hood edge is pretty much dead straight where it meets the wings, so I clamped a piece of box section to it as a guide and set about it with the hammers. With it striaght I could see how bad the front edge was, about an inch too high and the inner crossmember was bent that much too. That took a lot of hammering, clamping and levering to get it back where it should be. I tacked it all up and test fitted it and it looks pretty good so far. Still needs plenty of work, but getting there.