They should make a reproduction hood for a 70-72 Buick gran sport because the hoods are hard to find in good condition or they what some crazy price for them I seen hoods for 1,000 and more or make a steel cowl hood I don't want to put fiberglass on my car I preff steel..
I'd bet a new one would have to cost close to 1400. So what's the market out there? Would they fly off the shelves? I'm no expert in manufacturing a part like this, but I'm sure the investor would want to see some real return, not just break even. I'd like to see some STRAIGHT front bumpers before I see hoods.
They would still be $1000-1500 if remade. If you can find a nice used one buy it. Nice ones are rare and getting more rare every day.
Some new parts are not a good fit. I suspect AMD may have priced making these. If I had to bet I would say shipped you will be in it for $1000-1500.00. You can get a nice used original for say $800.00.
The main problem is they will sell two in NH, maybe 3 in Maine, none in vermont, a few in NY, Mass and CT, Etc. Not enough call for a reasonably priced production run.
True but u have to look at somethings to look who has skylarks like me that wants a GS hood and make a clone or tribute whatever u call it that's the only good looking hood for that car or put a cowl hood..I know three guys other guys that looking for the hood in Ohio and there's 70-72 skylark all over the 50 states..u have to look at the demand off it.
There really isn't that much demand for them. You have to look at what it would cost a manufacturer to make these hoods. After they spend the money to make them, they are going to want to make a good profit off of them. Now your going to have new hoods in the $1000-$1500 area. You can find a good hood in the $700-$800 price range or you can buy a pair of scoops and graft them in your self or pay someone too. It might end up being cheaper to have someone do it then buying a good hood and having it shipped.
Agreed. There probably isn't now and won't ever be enough demand to ever pay off the huge stamping tools and welding fixtures that would be needed to run such a low volume part, even if done overseas. If they setup and ran only 5000 parts I'll bet they'd never have to run the tools again. Devon
It might be the same one sold by these guys: http://gawain.membrane.com/~thornton/hood.html Molded fiberglass with a stamped steel insert. Devon
Im sure someone will sell a repop eventually. Quality and price are another matter. Ive been into Olds for a while and i'll tell you it took the Olds guys years to get an aftermarket version that was worth a damn. Everyone just wanted to make the fiberglass section and call it a day. Of course that was a terrible, fragile design.
You can buy a new chevelle cowl hood for like 400 so why would a buick gs repo hood need to be so expensive for the seller to make money. If only one manufacture makes them then he would have the market on them.
The reason chevy hoods are 400 is because they make 1000's of them. Next time you drive around town count the number of Chevells and Mustangs and in the corner of the same paper put the total # of Skylarks you see. Get the drift? No one will ever make GS Hoods unless you do it. Ask the parts place and others if you paid for all the tooling would they make them then ask the cost and time you might have to spend. It will be cheaper to buy a GS350 with a good hood than to make some. Just saying!
Im fairly sure the TPP hood is a cheap knock off for that price. The hood Thorton sells is a quality piece virtually identical to the original. Thorton has the molds in house and repros them himself. Last I checked, he was getting close to 3k for them. Well worth it IMO as a mint original hood is around 5k. I doubt the Parts Place hood comes anywhere close to the hood Thorton sells Thorton also repairs the Olds hoods too. I helped a friend of mine drop his hood off there a few years ago. He debonded the steel and replaced it with a reproduction steel frame and glued it all back together. He did a fantasic job. It looked like an NOS hood when we picked it back up. While we were there, he showed us the molds for the hood. Pretty impressive. I think a GS hood would sell if made as well as the core supports and quarters. Good hoods are expensive and really getting hard to find these days
Right I think if they made the hood for the 70-72 Gs hood it would sell I know that for a fact everyone has a lark wants a Gs hood or makes the stage 2 hood or even have a cowl hood it's just the appeal of the car it's just like this everyone puts a super sport hoods on chevelles because it makes it more as a muscle car. Would you rather have a stock flat hood or a Gs hood. My answer is GS hood because it has style and it's unique.
Not everyone, your entitled to your opinion but your opinion isn't what everyone feels. I agree with you, a GS hood is better looking than a stock skylark hood but there are plenty of guys on here that love there skylark just the way it is, stock hood and all. I don't think a hood would create enough demand to go into production, we should be happy we have good quality core supports and quarters being repro'd
I can understand because I'm glad that they repop quarters because my car needs them and I can understand tho I love my lark I was going to buy the steel cowl scoop if I can find a hood and I think I might do that this is my opinion about the GS hood getting repo I thought it would be just a good thing to bring up
Quarters are a relatively simple one piece stamp but for a 70-72 Buick they are still $700.00. Hoods are more complicated with holes and folds. Plus hoods are two pieces. They are also bigger and heavier. All of this along with low production relative to Chevs drives up the price. Based on the existing quarter price hoods would be a lot more than $700.00. Regarding the effect of production numbers on price, look at inner fenders. Repro inners for 70-72 Buicks are $250.00 each. Repro inners for 70-72 Chevelles are $99.00 each.
I agree with everything said to support the idea that "they wont be reproduced" except for one fact. They do reproduce 442 hoods, and Cutlaii are in about the same demand as Skylarks right now. I feel like the demand is most certainly there, its just a matter of getting the word out. Do keep in mind however it takes lots of time to tool-up for production of any new part. It'll take some time but id be surprised if it didnt happen eventually.
