LAT Hood & Reproduction Dashboard

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Fellow Forum members,

Scraped together some $$$ and am close to ordering a LAT Hood & Reproduction Burled Walnut Dash for the "White Tiger."

Seeking Opinions on the best Vendors for both the Hood & Dash.

Please share your thoughts.

Thanks....
 
Me too

Sounds like the best dash is the Prestige auto S.S. sells. When Grandpa Dale A. gets back from Germany he is completing a couple laying about inner and outer shells to be laminated together. Naturally I want one yesterday so if there is another quality one out there...
 
I use the fiberglass LAT hoods from Kent Wilcox in San Diego. Kent runs an FAA approved aviation repair shop specializing in composites. If he has free time he'll make hoods. Obviously his quality is excellent. These are basically copies of the LAT 79 hood with its triangular corner vents. I have not checked his prices in a couple years but back then he was actually cheaper than Dale.

Moondoggie has a different but very nice looking setup, quite similar to hood on the 1964 Shelby American Tiger. It used the fiberglass LAT 25 hood scoop mounted on top of the steel hood. This is the hood that was homologated.

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at the beach
 
Dittos on

All that but the Homologated thing. Buck got contact info for Kent Wilcox?
Oh I get it now, approved for racing. I would never race my car that's specifically excluded from my insurance:cool: I am interested in fit and finish first.


Have not heard of the Florida connection. "Full perimeter inner frame comes separate and must be professionally aligned and bonded to the hood". This bothers me and eliminates them.

Dale has quoted me a price and I prefer to deal with members all else being equal. I am happy to take a look at all options and work with you LHP, you are already on our good guy list as I think you have our AC filter housing. Dale is closer than San Diego but willing to travel for good product,

I have a less than perfect example on my MK1a. Right or wrong I'd rather have a finished interior and slight lip at openings of scoops and vents. I have seen the gluing of mesh screens and seek to do a more finished look. I have wanted to build custom mesh for the hood vents and a slight lip on scoop and vents is desired as well
 
I am very happy with Kent Wilcox hood, bought mine @ 3-4 years ago for $550.
I put studs in the soft aluminum inserts that are threaded for hinge mounting bolts to prevent thread damage while removing and fitting hood a million times while fitting and prepping for paint.
 
Moondoggie has a different but very nice looking setup said:
The reason that I went with a steel hood was after I tried to fit a fiberglass
LAT hood to my car or rather Dan Pardini tried. The bottom line for me was
given the amount of time it really takes to make these hoods look good and fit right you might as well spend the money modifying your original hood. Metal to metal looks good but Fiberglass against metal not so good so Dan fabricated a metal LAT25 scoop and we used the Hollywood 55 cars hot air vents on my hood and it looks good and works awesome. It's not the cheap way to go but if your looking for perfection it's the way to go.....
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I had dealt with a glass hood too and decided it was cheaper to have a fab guy make me a similar LAT hood out of steel. He made the exact vents and I added a 427 Cobra scoop. Fit was great.
 
Personally, I don't like the looks of the Lat hood. The scoop starts way too far down the front of the hood for me. I used a 427 Cobra scoop on my last Tiger. I think I will do that again on my new Tiger and figure out some way to graft some cool vents into the rear corners. I'm still thinking of what I want to do.


Moondoggie said:
The reason that I went with a steel hood was after I tried to fit a fiberglass
LAT hood to my car or rather Dan Pardini tried. The bottom line for me was
given the amount of time it really takes to make these hoods look good and fit right you might as well spend the money modifying your original hood. Metal to metal looks good but Fiberglass against metal not so good so Dan fabricated a metal LAT25 scoop and we used the Hollywood 55 cars hot air vents on my hood and it looks good and works awesome. It's not the cheap way to go but if your looking for perfection it's the way to go.....
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There was someone in the states bringing in the LAT hoods from the UK by Jeff Haworth.. meant to be good quality and have metal inserts for all fittings. I bought one a few years back.. looked nice but havent got round to fitting.

As for metal V glass... metail is nice and will give a good finsih.. good glass hood can to.. advantage for FG is lighter weight over the front wheels.
 
Small world

I shipped Jeff some parts strapped to a pallet a year or so back. I understand a Tiger owner has recently sold out of several that may have come from England on ePay . Jeff also just contacted Lee for 3 AC air cleaner housings. Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't need eBay.

I like the no bounce of a metal hood, I have Champagne taste and a beer budget, but I realize you do get what you pay for. Too bad there is no L alloy model made, but that would be Caviar taste and budget to match.
 
I met a gentleman last year that made his LAT hood out of aluminum--beautiful work.
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After delivering steel bonnets to my body man, he finally got the front end body work in shape. Then he had to get the imported glass LAT bonnet fitted. Think it costed me a few hundred.:D
 
In da Hood

I've bought a couple hoods from Kent Wilcox, the fiberglass and assembly quality is excellent, I tried to buy one from him from my current Tiger about a year and a half ago and he said he didn't have time to make them any more. I saw one at Dale's shop, and Dale's are as good, or better, than Kent's, and I liked how Dale's can be ordered to seal the hood scoop to the air intake.
One of the problems with the fiberglass hoods that doesn't seem to be as much of a problem with a steel hood is the fit at the curve on the fender sides, and the curve of the cowl. One of the hoods I got from Kent about 15 years ago fit rather poorly at the fender, and the original LAT hood on B9471929 really fit terrible, as well as being generally much lower quality than the hoods currently available.
I agree about the LAT hood scoop starting too far forward. I've been thinking about getting an extra steel hood and making a "cowl induction" type hood similar to what the early '70's Camaro's and Corvettes had. Although on a Tiger, instead of being "cowl induction" it'll be more like "hot air on the windshield".
Bob K.
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I just picked up my new Prestige dash at FedEx yesterday. I'm on Dales list when he gets back from his "over the pond" excursion.

I'm in no hurry.
 
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