By the way I understand your description, your hood is okay, but one or both of
your fenders are off.  You didn't say what the model is.  If it is a C/K, I
have found that you have to start with the rear quarters, go to the doors and
then the front fenders to get them correct.  Of course the trunk and hood come
into play also.  How is the alignment down the sides of your car - both
horizontally and vertically?  Gary L.
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At the factory the front clip was installed as one piece. Infact some
factory photos show the cars coming down to meet the frames with the hoods
installed and held up by a fixture to allow the front clip to go on.

There are a ton of adjustment combinations for the hood to body, one is
interesting in that you shim the front of the front fender to frame
attachement point. In dong that shim it actually bows out the wheel well
curve and moves to top of the front fender at the cowl inward. Shimming up
front does not affect the front to rear but moves the fenders to their
maximum flex.

Just loosening the three bolts at the cowl and pushing in will not make the
correction, but loosening the apron to cowl retainers and then adjusting the
height of the front shims or the distance between radiator support to fender
might move your fender into the position you want. Also consider that you do
not need to make large adjustments as anything done up front will magnify as
it runs back along the length of the fornt fender.

On my 47 convertible slightly shimming out the lower reatiners where they
meet the radiator support moved the distance from the hood to fender in
dramatically.

Bondobil
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In view of Bondo's excellent quote above, what I do is install the hood
first and make sure that the gap to the cowl is even on both sides. then
I install the fenders one at a time maintaining even spacing/alignment
of both sides to the hood/cowl.  

I leave the bolts loose in the front (to the frame and radiator mount so
that it can be slid to either side as required.  While I doing this, the
hood release mechanism is not installed.

Once everything is aligned, install the hood release so that alignment
is maintained.

The key is the hood installation must be first.


Jetman
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