The truck’s been sat outside the house under a tarpaulin since the start of August, and it’s booked in to get media blasted and painted with sealer next week to try and protect it a bit. The guy from the bodyshop that will be doing the work (same one that did the Camaro) reckoned the hood was a goner, and after lots of hunting for a replacement, it seems another one will be extremely expensive by the time you factor in shipping. I wanted to see if I could get the hood back to its original shape before giving up, so pushed the ’55 outside and took the hood in to work on.

A few hours of hammering and shaping later it’s an awful lot better. It still needs a huge amount of work to finish, but at least it’s back to being hood shaped. I’ll get it blasted along with the rest of the metalwork and see what they say once they have it clean. Can’t wait to start on this now, should be a really good project. Just need a load more space, and about ten times as much time. Can’t see either happening tho!