Bill, you can see the "spine" better in the photos that Andrew took of our two cars on Brice rd. last year. It's most noticable in the photo looking down on my hood parked nose to nose with his car.

https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...ad.php?t=17372

The spine isn't as pronounced as the Crossfire's original hood but at least it has one. Plus, since Chrysler did indeed buy out AMC over 20 years ago, that means there IS a connection. Either way, fewer than five people out of 100 would ever pick up on its AMC heritage. Honestly, most everybody who sees it thinks it's factory, because so little is known about these cars.
If you had the chance to see it in person, everything would look so much better to you. In all fairness, ya can't judge it simply by the photos.
In actuality, there has really only been about 50 or 60 forum members who have seen it in the flesh, and I can't count how many people have told me they didn't like it until they saw it for real.
I try to make it to as many GTG's as I can, and I'll be at the Dragons Tail in a couple weeks. I'm looking forward to seeing everybody.
As nice looking as the Jag hood is, to most people who see it, I would think they'd recognize it as being Jag/Ford hardware and wonder what's the connection, and what's it doing on a Chrysler?
Oh yeah I forgot, it's subtle.