Topic: How to Identify 1969 and 1970 Hood Latches

[Anghelrestorations]

Put together a new reference article to show the different versions of hood latches on 1969 and 1970 Mustangs.  Any questions or comments let me know....
 
Link:
http://www.anghelrestorations.com/uploads/3/1/7/6/3176630/hood_latches_v1.0.pdf

[J_Speegle]

Very concise effort as usual - Almost temped to suggest that the sticker details be rolled into the same article. Would only add a page

[Brian Conway]

          Thank you Marcus, nice work, and I've got a couple of questions.  The latch on my car uses a letter for the month designation ?  Where would the MCMP logo be located ?  Thanks,  Brian

[Anghelrestorations]

Jeff...what sticker are you asking about?

[Anghelrestorations]

Brian,  You always have plenty of good original parts on your car.  This hood latch you are showing here is a H308.  H=August, 08=8th day, 8=1968.  So its an August 8, 1968 date code and if I remember works well with your early car. 

The hood latches were actually one of the harder things to take pictures of because of the shape and they dont lay flat.  I will be adding extra pictures and behind the scene information on my Facebook pages going forward. 

I circled the picture here that shows where the logo is stamped:

[J_Speegle]

Jeff...what sticker are you asking about?

Sorry    Left out a letter - meant to type "striker" Figure that if you didn't include that info here you would need to make one with just that information at some point.

Again just a thought - unfortunately typed incorrectly

[Anghelrestorations]

Ahhh haa ha.  Yeah, one letter makes a big difference.  I was wondering what this secret sticker was I never heard of before. 
I have something I am doing on the strikers, but probably will just keep it separate just to keep things easier to find in the future.  But I did consider adding it....

[specialed]

Have you guys seen the yellow dot color code on front of late 70 latch?   Marcus from what I seen the type of latch & vendor depended on which plant & when.   Example all 69 Dearborn Shelby & boss cars I seen have the date on backside version.

[J_Speegle]

Have you guys seen the yellow dot color code on front of late 70 latch?   Marcus from what I seen the type of latch & vendor depended on which plant & when.   Example all 69 Dearborn Shelby & boss cars I seen have the date on backside version.

Will see what I can find on the other plants to se if there is a pattern/a supplier difference between the plants like there were with some of the other parts.

Research continues

And Ed - no I've not ever seen a yellow daub or marking on any of these

Sure it wasn't a big white X like we see owners add to everything under the hood on Dearborn 69???   LOL

[Anghelrestorations]

Yep, research always continues. 
I think for now we at least identified that there is actually a difference between a 1969 and 1970 latch.  Going forward and documenting some original cars from the different plants we can see if one style/vendor was used more than any other. 
And never seen a yellow paint ID on these.  Will keep an eye open for that. 

[specialed]

I sold the nos dozz latch with yellow paint daub to dave riley years ago for his concours GG boss 302  buy I have a used 70 latch here somewhere with the yellow daub on it & I think it is on bottom rh side & I think it was on late 70 version latch

[Anghelrestorations]

Ed,  We can take a look when me and Bruce come out to visit later this year... if you ever warm up out there above 60 degrees..... 

[specialed]

its 65 here at mecum fl. auction as I left IN, before the 3rd artic blast came in & yes I have about 20 something latches in shop now & some nos to look at.

[Mwilson7]

Marcus,

I have a quick question for you on this article.  I have a 70 Dearborn 5/70 built Mach 1 which definitely has the second hood latch which you show as being in production until March 70.  At first i thought maybe mine was replaced except the build date on my latch is E060 which would indicate a May 6th 1970 build date,  correct?  It would seem that this date would be inline with my production date so I would think it would be original and correct. Any thoughts on this?

I should add that my latch is made by MCMP

Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge through these articles and they are immensely helpful in understanding these cars.

[Anghelrestorations]

Hi Mark,  Yes, it looks like you have the correct date code from what you are saying so I would not change it and not consider it incorrect.  At best what we are doing with all the research is to come up with a general guideline when things changed and to document changes, however its always hard to have an exact date....just a guideline.  So I think you are good here.