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October 12, 2005: Well, the hood has finally been started.
I haven't been able to find my original hood template and I just wasn't getting around to buying the cardboard to do it again. Finally, whilst standing in my garage and lamenting the fact that I needed to go shopping, I spotted the familiar black/green/yellow/blue hues of my template. It was stuck behind some spare parts and rolled up. Some comedy ensued as I tried to lay it out flat and then discovered that my new piece of aluminum was about 3/4" too short according to the notes I'd written on the template, but I won in the end. The aluminum has been cut to a rough shape and now I have to bend it to fit the car. Instead of simply wrestling it into submission on the grass like last time, I'm going to anneal the aluminum and see if I can be a little more precise. I should finish tonight and then it will go in for louvres in a more appropriate direction. The fun never ends!

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