Originally Posted by +fireamx
Moparrbust's "hood" project piqued my interest enough for me to impose upon his hospitality at 8:00 A.M. this morning.
I always enjoy meeting new Crossfire owners, and Mike is a great guy who really knows his stuff when it comes to making "Crossfire" mods. When he gets done with all his plans for his SRT, it's going to be one formidable Crossfire. (not that it wasn't already).
His Supercharged "CrossJag" or JagFire hood (take your pick) looks like it's going to be a very cool alternative to the Crossfire/Sebring/Pacifica/SUV hood strakes. Mike is an autobody "Craftsman" and I'm betting the finished product is going to come out looking like it's factory.
This brings me to the reason for my post. Since the Crossfire's beautiful lines lend itself so perfectly to tasteful mods, and there are more than a few forum members that have their own ideas about what they would like to do, (but probably very few of us that share Mikes skills for "metallic" bodywork,) wouldn't it be a whole lot easier for the rest of us to have a "fiberglass" Crossfire hood to work with?
If we could get enough "serious" people together, maybe it wouldn't be too late to get AAR to duplicate the Crossfires "stock" hood, and then it would be a simple matter of customizing it anyway you choose because "glass" is so much easier to work with.
I just thought I'd put this out there for discussion.
Thanks for the kind words...and it was nice meeting you today.
As far as the fiberglass stock hood goes I believe that would be a great way as well. Glass is the EASIEST (and itchiest...if that's a word) material to modify and can be made lighter weight than our hefty stock steel hoods.