I spent the morning hammering out dents in the nose of the hood
(bonnet). When I got it the paint on the hood was cracking and falling
off. Or I should say the bondo that is. I thought I should strip the
paint from it and get some primer on it to protect it from rust. That's
when I discovered that there was about 1/4" of bondo underneath across
the whole front going back about a foot. They had reshaped the whole
front profile with a thick layer of bondo rather than smoothing out the
fairly minor dents. So I made a couple of thin dollies or 'spoons' that
would slip in between the inner and outer panels to reach the backside
of the dents. After an hour or so of hammering I got it smooth enough
that it will now finish up with only a very thin skim of filler or
high-build primer.
Now I see other places where the paint is cracked, and I know that there is bondo lurking underneath...
Surprisingly, the hood finisher strip was present and undamaged.
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