Nova plastic plugs for center studs on hood front moldins

[Mr.Nickey Nova]

Originally Posted by firstgenaddict

They almost look like the plastic insert which the door panel clips push into.

That's what they are!! I'm sure the originals were used for the same purpose...

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

The door panel clips are a different shape & brown, and thus not interchangeable.

[L_e_e]

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[m22mike]

Looks like them, thanks.

Mike

[396L78canuck]

Thanks for all the feedback.Bob

[Diamond_Don]

I looked at these plastic caps and didn't seem to remember anything like these on my 1970 Nova with an April build date. Since I am the third owner of the car I can't certainly say the treatment on my car is factory, but I can say that the car has never been hit here, so now I'm wondering if this may actually be factory.

The "cap" is some kind of formed putty material that has hardened over the years and is now very brittle, only putty remnants on some of the hood lip pins.

Any thoughts? Some kind of factory application, or, some home mechanics bright idea in place of lost/missing plastic caps?

[396L78canuck]

My December 69 built 70 Nova does not have any putty or remnants of putty however the car was repainted some 20 years ago.Bob

[Salvatore]

Diamond, are you showing under the hood where the hood emblem goes? Not sure what you are showing us.

[Diamond_Don]

I call it the hood lip molding, it's part number 6263110, and goes across the entire front edge of the hood. I tried to take a backside picture of this molding's fasteners with the hood up.

There is no evidence of the putty material on the hood's bow tie emblem (the center one with two attachment studs).

Thanks

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I've never seen any putty on any of the hood lip molding studs.

Note that the NOS hood lip molding you have is different than the factory installed versions, in two areas;

1. The studs are self threaded whereas the assy line versions were machine thread.

2. There are 2 studs missing in the NOS versions, closest to the center emblem - you can see the holes for them in the earlier pic. The assy line versions would have 2 additional studs compared to the NOS one in this pic.

You can still find early NOS hood lip moldings with all studs in machine thread, but they are difficult to find. The other option is to remove the self threading studs on the later NOS versions and replace the studs with a machine threaded stud, then add two more while it's apart...