@dickruzzin posted:We have seen this before.
1. Why put a hood bump on a mid-engine car?
2. Why ruin one of the most amazing parts of the car, the front hood>
CRAZY,
I guess, needed room for the high rise manifold 
Same reason that the Spider used at one time, I guess. Or interesting, 8ma526 taking the Lola approach...
And good news: all recoverable, really. Some day '526 will emerge from under the boxes and look absolutely fabulous, I'll bet...even w/o the hi-comp 327 with a stroker crank
Scifi, the only explanation I can give to the 8ma522 is that it got shuffled up, I think as someone put it 8ma522 was just the furthest from the door.... Having the dash from the first cars (switches down and 4-wire window motors), glass from ~May 1969, the Mobil chassis plate (from March 1969), single piece seats and single piece door panels, whatever...I couldn't see a picture of the shift linkage, because these early cars should have had the open Zf (no shift box) and not the Bosch alternator (others were Prestolite). Even allowing a hyper mismatch by a subsequent owner, my guess is that the chassis just got lost along the way and was finished as a 2 headlight car (even if a year out of sequence). Can anybody verify when/if the hood and engine covers moved from steel to aluminum? Lee
