Topic: 69 351w GT Hood Question, Few may be able to answer

[Boss980]

I'm in the hunt for a Hood for my 69 351w GT Mustang. These cars also had a Hood Scoop with the Turn single indicators. My question is Did the 69 GT Mustangs have cut outs under the Hood scoop similar to the Fairlane Hood Pictured below?

[7Lscjracer]

Yes they did depending on production date
My car originally had that type of hood
See Marcus Anghel's hood article
http://anghelrestorations.com/uploads/3/1/7/6/3176630/69_70_hoods_v1.0.pdf

[Boss980]

Thank you 7Lscjracer for the Marcus Anghel's hood article, it shows this "Pie Cut out" in the center of the Hood as Version 1: Early production 1968. So it's not quite answering my question or does it? The Article doesn't indicate that its specific to a GT but more as a early production 68 so this makes me feel maybe this hood cut out would NOT be correct for May 07 1969 Dearborn GT build ? The reason I ask is I talked to a guy that owned a 69 GT like mine and it originally had the pie cut out in the hood (Not sure of build date) and he thought all GT came that way??
I just wanted to be sure before finalize my hood ??

[7Lscjracer]

The pie wedges hood is for any early build mustang with a factory installed bolt on scoop
My car is November 17th 1968 but I don't know how much longer this version 1 hood was used after that
You'd be looking at version 4 in my opinion for your car with holes drilled for scoop mounting of course
Reprints of the Ford combo shaker and bolt on scoops template are readily available
Have a look at this thread on production dates:
http://www.concoursmustang.com/forum/index.php?topic=5313.0

[Boss980]

The pie wedges hood is for any early build mustang with a factory installed bolt on scoop
My car is November 17th 1968 but I don't know how much longer this version 1 hood was used after that
You'd be looking at version 4 in my opinion for your car with holes drilled for scoop mounting of course
Reprints of the Ford combo shaker and bolt on scoops template are readily available
Have a look at this thread on production dates:
http://www.concoursmustang.com/forum/index.php?topic=5313.0

I leaning your direction on this, Last Question I know some cars did not get the Insulation pad on the under side of there hood how do I know what hood did or didn't receive these pads from the Factory?
Would a 69 351W GT get these ?

[7Lscjracer]

I believe it's a Grande and Mach 1 attribute only, but more so Grande.
No evidence of a hood pad on my car bought in May 1981.
I don't like it anyway, keeps under hood temps up.
Here's some info:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=2ahUKEwiv0Z_Q4qzdAhWMq1kKHWWvAE4QFjAAegQICBAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.ford.com%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Ffordmedia%2FNorth%2520America%2FUS%2F2013%2F11%2F18%2F1969_Mustang_Data.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2FdrD5-LcoaRJpr4zXt2Ao

[Armond]

We discussed this before,  I know jacks GT Q code convert I restored long ago had a non pie cut hood.  As I remember it was built in Nov 68.  It was the original hood.

[Brian Conway]

Hoods have date stamps.  Have a look it might help out the discovery process.  Brian