Will a 76 Torino Hood fit a 76 Country Squire?

They make the Torino hoods out of fiberglass.

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Would love to shed about 150lbs off of the wagon's front end.

Putting the wagon on a diet with a goal of slimming her down from 5,000+ lbs to about 4,100.

 

Will not fit.

 

Nope. Unless your 'Country Squire' is a Torino Squire......
Then it would.

Wouldn't necessarily recommend it anyway though.
Fiberglas hoods are prone to cracking with repeated movement. You would also probably get some cracking around the hinge mount locations after a while, from stress.

 

Which front end clips are interchangable with the '76 wagon?

Montego? Gran Torino? Fairlane? LTD? Galaxy? Lincolns? Mercuries?


Whether fiberglass cracks or not is not an issue here -- Grrretchen will get a fiberglass or carbon fiber hood. I would prefer to buy an off-the-shelf hood, but i will build it myself if i have to. If i have to manufacture the hood myself, i want to know which hoods i can take a mold off of.

 

72-78 full size Ford hood, wagon or sedan. Can't say if the lines from a full size Merc line up, they may(?) have a different skin. The others you mention, no way.

I'm with KK on this one though, I think making a f-glass hood is going to cause you more grief than it's worth

 

waddabout a carbon fiber hood?

Grrretchen needs to go on a serious diet, her stock curb weight: 5,000lbs
Diet plan:

-100lbs for emmission controls
-150lbs fiberglass hood
-120lbs door crash beams
-150lbs bumper crash beams
-250lbs '98 crown vic rack and pinion steering replacement
-30lbs alumunium intake
-20lbs aluminum headers
-820lbs total reduction

Final curb weight: 4,180lbs.
Total HP: 475.
Weight to power ratio: 8.8 this is similar to the 2012 Dodge Charger SRT8 (by comparison my C4 convertible vette weighed 3,300lbs with a 300hp LT1 for a 'wimpy' 11.1 ratio)

Why?
When i get groceries in my 'grocery-getter' i want to make sure the ice-cream doesn't thaw and the beer doesn't get cold on the way home. My options were either an ice-cream truck conversion of the wagon, or a speed modification. I chose the latter.

 

i want to make sure the ice-cream doesn't thaw and the beer doesn't get cold on the way home.

Personally I like my beer cold. Okay, so I'm nit picking! If you paint your wagon white and add ice cream decals you can do both if you crank the AC up on high. You might even be able to make gas money selling popsicles.

Our son has been having problems finding hood hinges and a hood for his 1976 El Camino Malibu.

 

You're going to save 250lbs just on a rack & pinion install? You sure?

 

That would be 73-78 models, not 72-78. 71-72 matches and 73-78 matches. LTD II and Torino and Montego hoods won't fit. I bet you could use the Marquis/Colony Park hood. You would also have a better chance at finding one with a nice chrome strip at the back to help with the whole hideaway wiper thing.

 

it's less?

i'll need the R&P to get the clearance for the aluminum headers. How much do you think the entire front suspension, steering assembly, etc. weighs for a 76 Squire relative to a 98 Crown vic?

 

Montego? Gran Torino? Fairlane? LTD? Galaxy? Lincolns? Mercuries?

. LTD II and Torino and Montego hoods won't fit. I bet you could use the Marquis/Colony Park hood.

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As said, you'll need a hood from a FULL sized car, not an intermediate. So you're looking for 1973 to 1978 years only: Ford Custom 500, Galaxie 500 or LTD, and Mercury Monterey, Marquis or Grand Marquis.

Torino, Fairlane, Montego, Gran Torino, Elite, LTD II, Thunderbird*, Cougar, and any other intermediate size car hoods are no good. Also, Lincoln Mark III/IV/V hoods will not fit.

I'm looking at some 73-79 Lincoln Continental/Town Coupe/Town Sedan pictures now. The hood actually DOES look the same as the 73-78 big Ford/Mercury ones. Might work?!! Find one somewhere, measure it, and see.

* edit: I take that back, the 1973-1976 Thunderbird hoods also look very similar to the LTD ones. Like with the Lincolns, go out, find one, measure it, and see?!!

 

I don't know if I'd plan on saving 150lbs from going to a fiberglass hood either. Does the original hood even weigh that much?

Also I'm guessing whatever headers you are looking at are not aluminum. More likely stainless steel or mild steel.

I'm not sure on weight differential between a '76 Country Squire and a '98 Crown Vic, but I bet it is not terribly significant.

 

To all with thoughts and opinions on my weight reduction plan -- thank you!

In addition to your feedback, also please provide suggestions for weight reduction...

such as:

- you won't loose that much weight by going to plastic windows, get rid of the spare tire and carry a can of "fix a flat" that should save you 60lbs.

you get the idea, and NO i am not considering going to plastic windows.