Something I read years ago in SAE--after reworking the hood to your satisfaction, pour some RTV to make a mold of it, and then cast your hood in resin!

In Response To: Hi Andy. I took a 1972 GTO body and cut off the front bumper/grill area. The resin parts are to convert to a Lemans: the header panel, grill, valance, headlight buckets and hood. Non of those resin parts were ever kitted. Someone made masters and made resin parts from them ()

Theory being that a new resin hood will have all of the changes in it, and those won't come undone as the new hood ages. You might still have issues with the new resin hood, but that's OK. You still have the molds for the new hood! You don't have to start from scratch.

Hope this helps.

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Just finished. One of my all time favorite dream cars. 1971 Pontiac GT-37 painted Quezal Gold with red and black stripes and black interior. Unfortunately, the resin hood is severely warped along the front edge. I thought that I had it fixed, but it bounced back. .... *PICS*