American Musclecar Oddities - The Ford Teardrop Hood Scoop And Why You Don't Want One

For nearly 60 years people have been installing the beautiful Ford Thunderbolt Teardrop Hood Scoop on all sorts of Hot Rods and Racecars...and for nearly 60 years people have been slowing their cars down and creating all sorts of insane tuning issues in the process. Here's the lowdown on the factory race car scoop, that is NOT intended to ever be used as a scoop!
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[@58sportsuburban]

I’m a little disappointed to find out Uncle Tony has more than one of those jackets. This whole time I thought he’s been wearing the same one.

[@rustybritches6747]

Yeah and Leno only has one denim button up!

[@shaggydogg630]

For what it’s worth those jackets are called Eisenhower jackets. I’ve got many and my grandkids make fun of me if I ask them if they want to borrow one of my Eisenhowers.

[@jeffduncan9140]

@@shaggydogg630 I get it. My dad loved them and called them Ike jackets.

[@clembob8004]

UTG should market those jackets, dirt and all.

[@EffequalsMA]

Yeah, I have more than one Dickie too but, at least they are different colours....

[@paulhare662]

I knew a Ford guy. He called my Chevrolet a Mister Potato Head car because you can pull any part off of a Chevy and stick it on another Chevy and it will fit. Seemed to me to be a good reason to stick with Chevrolet. I did have a teardrop bubble on a Chevy II once, I guess its a good thing I didn't cut holes in it.

[@shaggydogg630]

Lololo I’m a ford guy and I’ve got to use Mister potato head car!!!!

[@paulhare662]

@@shaggydogg630 Please, be my guest. Funny thing was that he also was of the firm belief that Mad Max's blower could switch on & off. Took me an entire happy hour and several bar napkins to set him straight.

[@robertchall8576]

Did the grills come off a Weber grill.

[@j.t.cooper2963]

🥔🥸

[@modelnutty6503]

ricers unite!

[@shoominati23]

A friend had a hotrod with 3 of those Stromberg 97 carbs and those Frogmouth scoops. He had the scoops facing backwards, and he had the car at 80 on the highway, and he said he was starting to get fuel sucked out from the carb throats and blown out over the windscreen of his '32 . It's easy to see the physics at work there though.

[@harrypalmer291]

It kept his windshield clean just like washer fluid squirter nozzles and he probably didn't have dead bug guts smeared all over the glass though. Killing 2 birds with one stone kind of, right?

[@jerrybaker6227]

The Ford being added to the Plymouth was priceless. Very funny guys

[@et76039]

Hey, someone needed to make it go faster! 😁

[@jerrybaker6227]

How dare you LOL !!

[@dubiousf00d]

@@et76039 Blasphemy!

[@ronschlorff7089]

I guess Ford has the last laugh, Plymouths now extinct, but sadly, so are my beloved Mercury cars!!

[@et76039]

@@ronschlorff7089, I know, I have a '68 Metal Cat. ☹

[@godsowndrunk1118]

The 1964 Thunder Bolt 427 was what Ford called a High Riser and was designed to replace to replace the original 427 heads and intake , which then became known as the Low Riser 427. The High Riser had much taller intake ports as well as a taller head. They required a special intake manifold and shorter rocker rail supports and those would not work on any other FE heads. The High Riser intake was very tall compared to the Low Riser....I think about four inches taller. On top of that , the factory Thunder bolt Fairlane race car had a four inch tall air box with with huge hose's coming out the sides and going to the high beam headlights which had been deleted and fitted with screens over the openings. The hood bubble was for clearance and the openings were for letting out heat. I'm currently replacing my worn out 427 Low Riser Top Oiler engine with a BBM Side Oiler block and will be running a very much repaired set of original Thunder Bolt heads that were ported by Craine, back in the day. Block is in the machine shop right now and is waiting it's turn behind a large backlog . Ive thought about using a tear drop bubble on my 65 Galaxie 500 4 spd, but every other Galaxie guy is doing the same thing and Ive mocked up the tall 2x4 intake and found that the hood clears the air cleaner studs by a half inch....hood won't close with the oval air cleaner , but it's the hood support web that's interfering with closing it. Ive seen old photos of High Riser equipped NASCAR Galaxie's that had an oval cut out from the hood webbing , so that's the way I think I'll go. I don't want that big ole bubble blocking my view anyway. Good video Tony, and mostly accurate.

[@HEMI66US2000]

HI , DID YOU KNOW THAT THE FIRST 11 THUNDERBOLTS HAD A 4 LEAF CLOVER INSTEAD OF THE TEARDROP . LOOK IT UP , IN FACT PHIL BONNER MENTIONED IT IN AN INTERVIEW .

[@mattc8723]

The shape of the teardrop also mimmics the framing, or bracing of Ford's hoods. If you look at the under-side of a Galaxie, Fairlane, Torino, or even my 80's Town Car, youll see what Im talking about.

[@Monaco-BuilditFixitDriveitEver]

Cool. That’s interesting to me. Thanks for the observation!

[@leesanders8824]

Each and every make won at one time or another. I bleed Chevy orange but I can absolutely appreciate Ford, Mopar and the other GM products of the time. And I'll work on whatever.

[@ronschlorff7089]

yup, the best old classic car is the one that runs at the time you just want to go out to take a little ride, in a "time machine"! And it does not even have to be a Delorean, either! ;D

[@TheScoundrel70]

Beautiful, and extremely accurate tutorial on Ford's Hi-Po windshield defroster! The Thunderbolt is one of my all time favorite cars, and what you said is very true about things getting complicated when it comes to why Ford did what, and how it was actually intended to work. You are also right about the "old" Ford guys. 😂 I like Ford's, but I like other makes and models as well. Apparently that defies some sort of cosmic laws, and has since I was a kid in the '70s. Pretty much any manufacturer you can name at one point had a fantastic piece of engineering, whether it was a single component or complete vehicle. And every one came up with a horrendous piece of scrap. To say otherwise is just silly.

[@Ecosse57]

i bought my first mopar when i was 15 and it was a '68 road runner. i am at heart a mopar guy. but the ford stuff (and racing history) is pretty damn cool. please more...

[@highrzr]

Spot on with the comment about only using it if you have the air intake system they used with it. The main reason that Ford used the bubble on the Galaxies and then the Thunderbolts was due to the 427 High Riser's extremely tall induction height. They couldn't close the hoods on either cars without it. As you mentioned, it does a good job extracting heat from the engine compartment. Seriously, it was one massive dual quad dual plane intake and a work of art. I bought a good used one and a pair of high riser heads back in the day when you could still find them. Now they are almost unobtanium.

[@yamatodamashii1179]

I put that exact tear drop scoop on my Nissan and now the arms flap around as I drive and the grates cracked my windshield. Thanx!

[@Monaco-BuilditFixitDriveitEver]

That’s funny!

[@fireballxl-5748]

Logical, well reasoned and informative. UT did a great job explaining. I never was anything but a Mopar guy and had no knowing of the Ford "scoop" but I really enjoyed learning about it.

[@oldtimerf7602]

I am a Ford guy. Can confirm, we are very sensitive about our classic Fords.

[@jimmyraythomason1]

Yep! Nothing torques me off more that resto moding a classic Mustang or Cougar.

[@paulhare662]

You guys should get together with the Corvette people. They don't really fit in in normal Chevy groups.

[@judgegixxer]

No confirmation needed.

[@robertmoore4637]

And drive slow in the fast lane

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@paulhare662 yes, especially the new Vette guys, they think it's in a class with a Mclaren or something.

[@Monaco-BuilditFixitDriveitEver]

Yes! I started watching with The Scoop on Scoops video and now I’m all smiles with this funny, informative, and no BS presentation of the great Ford bubble. Thanks Uncle Tony! I know, it’s perfect! Laughing and learning, thanks my brother!

[@JoeBob461]

In the late 60s, I had a friend who had a 58 Corvette with a tear drop bubble on it. It was that way when he bought it. It was GREAT at routing warm air into the cowl vent for the passengers.

[@SaxaphoneMan42]

the Teardrop replica is almost a perfect match, I thought you cut a hole in your Plymo- I mean Ford hood there.

[@aaronkelly2439]

I have followed your channel for several years and greatly enjoy your content. I am a ford guy myself, in fact I have never owned a Mopar. None the less, your channel has been very informative and I appreciate your automotive knowledge! A couple years ago, I surprised my father with a stock 63 Mercury Monterey and drove it from Washington state to Missouri. During that trip, I grew to appreciate what ford had done 60 years ago. These cars were meant to be driven, and are a pleasure to do so. Thank you for the great content! I would love to hear your thoughts on the ford cammer.

[@danfarris135]

Never thought that we would get a lesson on Ford teardrops from a Mopar guy. Thanks.

[@jamesford2942]

I'm a Ford guy, just look at my last name. Ford has done some amazing things. Some are amazingly good while others are amazingly bad. On good one was the 351 Cleveland. Unfortunately they had to mix in the bad with it as well. The first being to compromise the exhaust ports to fit it in to the Mustang. The next was to open the chamber to lower compression and cause detonation. Then they killed it here in the US after 4 years. They also did the go big or go home on the 4 barrel engines and ended up with lazy intake ports. They turned it into a dog when they made the 400-351M out of the 335 series engine. If you want to see fast, just look at what Bob Gliden did with that engine.

[@rogerdavenport9618]

My brother had one on a 67 nova, just for looks we called it a bubble, the thunderbolts as you said were for the cooler air and cooler air mix with fuel runs more effectively in the engine, also the flattened bubble gave the driver a better view from the left lane on the christmas tree, good infro uncle Tony.

[@charlesschenkbecher]

I think it's called a blister, not a bubble. Great video Tony!

[@pinkyellowblue007]

A protuberance

[@clutchkicker392ison5]

We all kno why 'Ford fans' get blisters.

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@pinkyellowblue007 a growth! Or maybe the chicks like it better when you call it a "bulge"!!

[@robs1852]

A carbuncle

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@robs1852 that works, car-buncle!! LOL

[@jimjungle1397]

The 1964 Thunderbolt Fairlane 427 has the high rise 427 cylinder heads and the intake is taller than the earlier low rise and later medium rise 427 engines.

[@steveford6373]

In an interesting side note: there are still 64 T-Bolts being raced today. They run in the mid 8 second range at around 150 MPH and they are not using the ram air set up at all .

[@ronschlorff7089]

some are, there's a good vid on one at Sacto raceway a few years back, it's on YT and called "T-Bolt, the whole show" some good shorts of "wheelie" runs, but terrible photography, did run a few times in high 140's I think! Recommended for T-bolt lovers, nevertheless, and my God, the cackling of the 427 engine alone is worth it. ;D

[@garyallen8869]

Although I love and respect Tony's channel in this case his analogy is only correct if the scoop where it is Unfortunately the logic falls apart when you move the scoop almost to the cowel vent like on an early mustang, or even the thunderbolt look at any side view of a thunderbolt and especially an early mustang like some of the AF/X 427 side oiler & camner powered mustangs, the scoop is well into the low pressure area of the windshield/cowel vent, and it does draw air in, not as Tony states, if you don't believe it do a simple smoke test while the car is running it is drawing air in, now take a fan at good level, do the same thing, watch the path of the smoke it hits the windshield, where a vorticity (low-pressure area) where again it is drawn in, also many of these cars the lower inner fenders, and even the thunderbolts had the lower part of the inner fenders vented with holes in them, this was to get rid of under hood heat, the air passing under the car in the fender wells helped draw the air out, and also created negative pressure under the hood, since I have a very extensively modified 65 Mustang with a teardrop hood, vented inner fenders and an all aluminum 434 Dart Windsor with Webers (48 IDA) that makes 718 HP I can tell you firsthand there are no tuning issues what so ever, and I have ran it with and without the hood and also with the forward facing Shelby scoop, it is slower with the hood off for obvious reasons (turbulence), and also slower with the Shelby scoop, (restriction and turbulence over the rear velocity stacks) while all Tony stated has some valid points, it is not the gospel nor 100% factual, the placement of the teardrop is the key factor, and I assure you no thunderbolt has the teardrop even remotely where Tony is giving his illustration, also I am not "a Ford guy" or any other such label, I appreciate all brands, and have made every one of them haul ass

[@ben68442]

Looks like a giant fly getting ready to crash into the windshield.

[@georgeparker7409]

Tony: Seems to me that I remember Smokey Yunick playing with cowl induction on a '57 Chevrolet for NASCAR. Not drag car but he found this out by taping strips of string on the hood and the air flow showed that the vent was a plus to pressure. I remember this from the time and it was also I believe in his auto biagraphy.

[@martinsuter3531]

Something else you might want touch on too, Tony, the fact that '62-'63 (and '64?) full size Pontiac Super Duty factory race cars used a hood scoop, purchased from Ford that was designed and used on '58 through late '60's Ford Super Duty F and N 800 through 1000' series big trucks'. The only difference between the Ford Super Duty truck scoop was the Ford truck version used a painted or chrome plated grill in the scoop opening which the Pontiac version didn't use and the stamped Ford part number was covered up with decal with a Pontiac part number.

[@tombrewsaugh1399]

I have also liked the looks of them. I never gave it much thought as to how the worked but do remember the air box and intact ducting.

[@Experiment-cp1gj]

I am a Ford person through and through. I race fords but tow it with a dodge and commute with a Chevy. I go with what works I like cars and trucks from all of the big three. This will probably start a bashing but ehhhhh.

[@livewire2759]

It ain't what you drive, it's how you drive it...

[@Z_732]

Same here man or woman... Except, I'm a Mopar kid. Commute in a crown Vic, building a 66 chev, and use dodges for the rest.. (hunting buggy, pulling truck, on and off road) . Seems we have the same issue when someone tries to tell us we're wrong..

[@Experiment-cp1gj]

@@Z_732 yep when you are standing next to a ford and agree with a Chevy guy and say I like that 340 dart over there. It definitely messes with there head and ends a debate before it starts.

[@Experiment-cp1gj]

@@livewire2759 yep

[@Z_732]

@@Experiment-cp1gj hahaha.. yep

[@jerrypuckett6733]

I’m known as a ford guy because I’ve owned mainly fords. Especially mustangs. But I love all 60s muscle cars. They all have character unlike ANY newer car. And you’re exactly right about how the tear drop hood works. I’ve always wanted one on my 66 mustang. But mainly for the cool look like the Thunderbolt drag cars. Dig the videos. 🤘🏼

[@america1723]

Love to see a shelf that is nicely organized. Nice job uncle tony. Wish I had all that room. Keep making good videos

[@mschiffel1]

I had a tear drop extractor duct taped to the hood of my 1960 Rambler. We were having a few beers and one guy came up with it while we were in his garage. It looked hilarious on this old clunker. It stayed on until the tape fell apart. This was in 1968.

[@ronschlorff7089]

Proving that only really excellent ideas happen after a few beers have been consumed, especially in a garage and old car setting. Still very true today, decades later. Something maybe my buddies and I would have tried back then If I was not so darned drafted at the time, in 67-69, U.S. Army. ;D LOL LOL

[@dubiousf00d]

My grandfather was a serious ford guy. So much so that when my son and I would go to car shows with him, and my son asked what kind of car he was looking at. If it was a Chevy, he would respond with "oh thats just an icky chevy". My son took him serious. We would see nice old camaros or bel airs and my son would point and say " look daddy an icky Chevy " Lmao

[@ronschlorff7089]

Good one. We did it with calling dog names, my young daughter used to call any poodle "miserable poodles" to owners faces cuz that's what we called that breed at home!! Kids say the darndest things cuz of their parents, I guess. LOL

[@Imnotyourdoormat]

Jay Leno found out about these thermal dynamics with his 66 7-Litre Galaxie the hard way... Even with it's cavernous engine compartment and custom cooling system the big FE generated so much underhood heat the motor would simply shut down in traffic, only to fire right back up after the hood was raised letting out the pre-existing "pocket" of hot air. A simple fabricated air induction cured the problem.

[@torrebergey25]

Not too bad of a model of that bubble. I can see it! Looking at your representation from another perspective it also, kind of looks a little like a model of a giant fly. Just saying. As a MOPAR guy, I always loved them too! They were used on everything. Mounted both forwards and backwards.

[@Fubarfighter]

I appreciate your discussion of what we used to call the "Honest John" scoop, mostly favored by Ford owners. (I have no idea where that name came from.) If I had to credit the popularity of this style, it had to do with the Malco Gasser, driven by legendary Ohio George Montgomery. It wasn't by any means slow or poor- performing. But what the modified Honest John on that car had was the function of streamlining air around the blower, which had a Hillborn scoop on top of it. In that case, it was never a scoop at all but a bulge. Scoops have always been expensive, and I think people thought HJs were a good buy, especially used. I have no awareness other than what you said that they actually harm performance, but they were not popular outside of Montgomery's Mustang at the track.

[@robertsteele7672]

That's a real nice setup you made there Tony. Perhaps you could sell it to a GenXer for his rice burner to complement the multiple spoilers attached to his trunk...lol... RS, Mil Ret...

[@harrypalmer291]

In high school I always dated the girls that understood the difference between scoops and extractors and how the "sucking" philosophy came to be . Thanks for trip down mammary lane , Tony! Always a fan!

[@ronschlorff7089]

Ah, the good old days when men were men and girls were girls, and neither were confused about it at all! ;D LOL

[@deliveryguyrx]

I always dated the 'heavy duty' models,lol!

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@deliveryguyrx for me, that came a little later in life!! ;D

[@bentheredonethat9296]

Thank you for that. I have a 64 Ford F-100 step side and am literally in the design phase of making my own carbon fiber hood. I have been breaking my head on figuring out the correct way to extract heat from the engine bay. Thank you again for sharing. SUBSCRIBED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@cheatingiscompeting3647]

UT roasting fords!! 🤣 as a chevy guy i love it

[@heavymetalmadness666]

The Mopar "air grabber" was one of the coolest scoop concepts. It seems odd that it never got put on other makes after the fact, more so with the sleeper at first glance look that has become popular in the past couple decades.

[@decapitofamily3410]

Teardrop hood is cool, I thought it was more looks/heat extraction because the cold intake air comes in through those giant air ducts

[@jameshuffman835]

Things that you could get added at the dealership before delivery! Rotunda performance parts! The teardrop was for clearance and ran an airbox with tubes running to the front for forced intake

[@ronschlorff7089]

like a 64 T-bolt for example.

[@dylanbarnes9191]

I'm 100 percent convinced UT us watching me every time I do something his video comes out on the exact subject Ben like this for 2 years I've even showed my wife how scary it's getting lol love the video they really help alot just very odd timing on project to project same things exactly

[@Thecommish777]

I am a Ford guy. Spot on with this post. Btw, that is the best looking reproduction of the Ford bubble I have ever seen! lol

[@jaredhatton1984]

I'm a Ford guy threw and threw but scratchy head and cuss them often 😂. This was a perfect explanation of the thunderbolt hood.

[@chadkimmel8957]

I wanted to buy a fiberglass tear drop hood for my 65 Mustang. I was one of the people who knew it was an air extraction device, but never once thought of starving the carb. Thanks for the info. I’ll need to head to the drawing board now.

[@bradfordeaton6558]

That's great. There are certain applications where they would be great for removing heat and trapped air. That makes huge sense.

[@ronschlorff7089]

they do collect rainwater on the engine though, so cover them if the car is outside, I use a car cover on my 64 Caliente with that scoop on it, it's part of the fiberglass hood, so not an add on!

[@Chuck_Carolina]

My father sold Ford's and we knew the good, bad and the ugly about them - it was always a love/hate relationship.

[@rollin19]

You see that's what the owners feel,love and hate. With a Chevy your worries are gone,you could be in a rust bucket with a 350 running like a clock and be surprised every time you made it to your destination.

[@u121921]

@@rollin19 check out Da Yoopers Rusty Chevrolet video - very seasonal and very accurate memory about the 76 Impala K9 cop wagon i once had

[@rollin19]

@@u121921 Thank you for the gift. I hope your holiday is a special one.

[@alandavis1245]

A friend of has a ford bubble on a first gen corvette. Always makes me smile. He’s also a hard core hot rodder and drives the vette cross country

[@FedUpCanuck]

I used to have a war with Ford and Chevy motorheads. My driver was a 34 Ford pickup powered by a 350 Chevy with a M22 rock crusher trans with a 411 rear end .You should do a series about the best and worst motors, trannys etc from all brands and do a selection of each brand and why good or bad

[@stuartwall8212]

Tony, I got an old Ford, and I would never hate you. Any brand, done right, will deliver. I watch cuz you are a crafty son of uh gun...and I learn stuff.

[@Monaco-BuilditFixitDriveitEver]

Why even think of hating?

[@stuartwall8212]

@@Monaco-BuilditFixitDriveitEver Most people who get angry dont think about why they were angry. People react when held beliefs are challenged or ridiculed. Usually no thought is involved.

[@jimolson8424]

I agree with you Tony. I am a FORD lunatic. I like all American built brands I have respect for all of them. My favorite cold air induction was the 69 428 cobra jet mustang. Fords motors love cold air.. Back in the day when I had money to drag race . I ran my fuel through a ice can. I even experimented with magnets replealing against each other wire tied to the fuel line.

[@danstewart8218]

I even experimented with magnets replealing against each other wire tied to the fuel line....Like your thinking. This even works on copper or even plastic tube...if you try to syphon a tank and the fuel keeps bogging as you suck on it...run a magnet along the tube in the direction you want the fuel to flow...its bonkers but it works...;D

[@judgegixxer]

Tony is 100% right. I can't believe anyone would have thought the teardrop bubble was a scoop. Basic grade 9 physics class stuff there. The teardrop "scoop" acts almost like a reverse or upside down NACA duct because of it's shape. It's tear or raindrop shape is backwards for how a droplet actually flows through the air. If it properly mimicked a droplet, the wide part would be at the front and would have a much better chance of funtioning as a scoop. Or it's almost like putting rear facing ram air inlets at the back of the car along side the taillights. I got a cowl induction hood for my 3rd gen Z28 initially to clear new motor but then I fabbed an aluminum plate that sits on top of carb and seals the circumference of the airfilter space inside hood lump with squishy rubber seal. No engine bay hot air can get sucked into the carb now. Only outside higher pressure air from base of windshield. I did not want all the underhood hot air that is also hi pressue to overwhelm or cancel out the windshield pressure effect.

[@randymack2222]

I have been giving this same sermon, longer than I care to admit! Now I can send all of my doubting Thomas's to Uncle Tony, "See I told you so"!

[@codyleemeece]

I’ve never heard a better description of Ford guys.

[@rossriley3818]

Thank you so much!! Those hoods are way kewl on a 60’s mustang!!

[@haro997]

Nice video and I agree. On another note, if you live in a hot area and want to keep your engine cool you don't need to cut a hole in your hood. Just tilt to back of your hood up. It will suck out all the hot air. This is what low riders and parade people do.

[@kevinbrown1368]

Check out the late 64 and 65 Mercury Caliente AFX and BFX drag cars which went away from the tear drop and used twin hood scoops at the front of the hood. You can buy these hoods still from Crites Restorations.

[@ronschlorff7089]

Much more functional and business like, especially for racing, but the teardrop "turns heads" more if on the street. It just looks badder! ;D LOL

[@imaouima]

I'm currently building a 66 Mustang and was considering the Teardrop "scoop." This video was great information.

[@hdfxr]

I'm not too particular about whether it works, just that it looks tough and impressive for the uninitiated

[@ronschlorff7089]

yes, remember everyone, the street is where these old things get noticed most, (especially now since every other car there is just a piece of modern no-style shit), not at the drag strip, if you even ever take your car there, to get "broken", again! ;D

[@cam3002]

Fun video, when I saw the faux Teardrop, all I could think of is Black Manta from Aquaman! The 70's TransAm scope came from a Ford work truck. If you really want to get people going, discuss the Shelby GT350 scope. And I own a 66 Mustang.

[@davidjohnmiller4849]

It was Ford’s 427 Highriser heads/intake set up that raised the top end higher .., it changed the angle that the air entered from the intake into the heads , the intake runners ... yes buy the time you add the carburetors and air cleaner box ... it didn’t fit “ under “ the hood , requiring a bubble

[@stevenbongiorno9277]

Cool! I didn’t realize that scoop was an extractor. Now that you’ve mentioned it, it was used with the air box and tubes. 🤔

[@stevenmitchell6347]

By evacuating hot air from under the hood, there was better cooling and less aerodynamic front end lift from air under the front end. I have air extractors on a couple of my vehicles for the engine cooling and smoother airflow under the front of the vehicles. GoPro and yarn tufts under the vehicles show it works!

[@jmanke6057]

Teardrop sure lower under hood temps but your are right the carb could use the full thunderbolt setup but in some setups a drop in in hood temp can make up for a lot even without the extra air gt500 have hood vents to cool off area around engine but they to pull air from the front

[@johnwilliamson467]

Ge what a novel concept using an item for what it was designed for with it required additional parts. Nice video well explained .

[@eugenepolan1750]

Hey Uncle Tony, Thenques for giving us the Scoop on the Scoop that wasn't a Scoop.

[@AtZero138]

On Cowl... On my A Body, Opening up the "Summer doors" that Air coming from the Cowl.. is Smooth and Constant... That Air has to go somewhere... Peace

[@DumPhuc]

My driveway is full of mopars and I restore b body cars but I'm gonna say the ford galaxies from 65-68 have a build quality to them and they're reliable as you can get. Ivw still got mine 30yrs later and it starts up every time, never left me stranded

[@tabbott429]

Well said. Makes perfect sense.

[@crankyyankee7290]

Maybe you need one of the scoops from the Hurst SC Ramblers, some even had arrows instructing the air on where to go, if it should get confused.

[@MCNicholasR]

Would it be good for engine bay cooling to put two small teardrops on either side of the rear of the hood?

[@6.4hemidriver44]

I like them all, every manufacture (Ford, GM, Mopar and AMC) at one point has made a car/truck I like. My buddy has some pretty cool Fords. A '64 Fairlane Thunderbolt clone. It's got a 427, Top Loader and 9". A '66 or '67 Mustang with a 289, Top Loader, he blew the factory rearend (8" ???) just tooling around, replaced it with a 9". An early '60's Falcon. It's nothing fancy, other then it's in almost new condition. He also has his dad's (passed away) '64 Galaxy, 406, think it's an auto, 9" and factory A/C. Got it out at Tombstone, AZ.

[@ronschlorff7089]

Nice collection, a '62 Galaxie was my friends and mine cruise car back in the day, late 60's, it was a sleeper with the 406, four speed, and tri-power. We "Surprised" a lot of guys in "good" cars, in L.A. area, with it. ;D We got lots of good old cars here in AZ, nice and dry in junk yards and peoples ram shackle properties parked and pack rat infested. But come in winter and spring, to get one, less competition with the rattlers that often make a home in them!! LOL ;D

[@6.4hemidriver44]

@@ronschlorff7089, my wife lived at Tucson when she was a kid. Still has family out there.

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@6.4hemidriver44 I live just north in Oro Valley, nice this AM, still bit of snow on the Catalina mountains and 34 degrees, better than the 200 we have in summers!! LOL ;D

[@jmanke6057]

I think you right uncle Tony has a favorite jacket and wears it all the time think the others just a rainy day backup

[@tomaszuloaga7241]

Around here, the Mopar guys are the sensitive ones. Fords are actually pretty simple Tony, you ought to get an old Galaxie some day.

[@billybobholcomb8768]

Would this help to de ice a windshield? I don't recommend driving a car with openings in the hood during the winter. I just wondered about that.

[@christopheransell2179]

I enjoyed the "Grump Lump" explanation of how it functioned, am surprised about the Ford bubble was actually to evacuate air rather than pull air! As a kid the only scoops I saw were the mopar style they used on Dodge Aspen RT's. Now what about the vents that were on the sides of the late 60s mopar high performance hoods? Were they functional or just for looks? What about the AMC "The Machine" Rambler hood scoops? I've been thoroughly enjoying this topic...

[@notablynova4247]

The original air grabbers were the side vents seen on 68 and 69 Plymouths and yes they absolutely did work the same way as the 70/71 pop up scoop

[@ronschlorff7089]

yes, a cool racing engine is a happy engine, look closely at the two dark inner headlights with wire mesh, of a '64 T-bolt, for the air scoops; not mentioned here, conveniently, by the Tone-ster!

[@notablynova4247]

@@ronschlorff7089 he clearly talks about the brights being deleted for ductwork. Watch the video and listen lol

[@ronschlorff7089]

@@notablynova4247 maybe got up to get a beer then, I guess, and missed it! LOL

[@anthonysquier6962]

Cat's FORD was just awesome. Love it.

[@MCNicholasR]

2:32 perfect

[@roundtuitracingaz132]

I have 65 Falcon and in the '80's I ran a teardrop on it. I needed clearance for a tall motor and since Ford had used it so did I. I did use clear plastic on the inside to keep the hot air out of the passenger compartment. At Carlsbad I was running 13.80's on motor then I removed the plastic and it ran 13.50's. So not all cars run slower with one. Before the teardrop I used 3/8ths coupling nuts on the hood hinge bolts for a poor mans cowl induction. That worked well but got tired of the rain in the engine compartment.

[@dadalebreton184]

I learned something again. I understand better the concept of scoops, and extractors. I just dont understand why Ford or other "blue jackets" engineers approved the extractor concept, knowing it made them loose some HP in racing application. They left it for daily driver look probably. I just bought a 65 GTO and im starting to rebuilt. If i go buy the passive air or low pressure air in that little frontal jacket scoop, air just glide over it and dont supply the 389ci tripower needs at a certain velocity speed. Much later they embrasse the Ram Air induction. With gaz explosion price and Ford focus around, i wont need a cowl induction set up, but if i change direction with it, i will certainly consider these valuables informations. Thanks. Nice content again! Best bubble blue jacket air extractor i seen so far. The grills specialy. Hehe

[@Monaco-BuilditFixitDriveitEver]

How did it lose power in a racing application? Tony didn’t say that. Maybe if the air box wasn’t part of the set up? Then it’s not the original use and your comment is not correct.?

[@joeswobodzien7536]

Sir building a 60's style 65 street impala like 1 i drove as a kid im now 70 was going 2 put on a thunderbolt style hood 4 the looks but never considered screwing up the air flow 2 my carb so thanks 4 the education saving me from hours of going psycho trying 2 figure out whats up with my carb I dig your green roadrunner when I was a kid in NYC sox + Martin could do no wrong !!

[@rescuedandrestoredgarage]

Great video brother 👍

[@modelnutty6503]

a buddy ran a teardrop on his '65 Mustang just for intake clearance. really tall intake manifold for the progressive linked 3 deuces on his built 289, fun little beast.

[@Monaco-BuilditFixitDriveitEver]

Do you think it worked? Did it run an air box?

[@henrybourdon6712]

I understand the idea of scoop versus extractor. I own 2 Chevy's, G.M.C., 2 Pontiac's , ford, Mercury, Plymouth and a Dodge. I will also admit i liked the look of the blister/bubble. One of my Pontiac's is a Trans am and now i want to spin that thing around. I also know that in 1970 to 72 they could be opened by unbolting the covers and i am not sure about this but were also available with a trap door hooked to a solinoid to open them when the foot was mashed. They also sell a kit to cut out the later years solid T/A shaker and install this fun to watch shaker open up by the ignition on or wow pedal. I kind of figured they reversed it to prevent rain water making paper machè out of the filter element. Now i wonder why the early race cars had them with the shaker sucking fuel out of the carb. Thoughts

[@dalewarriorofthesea3998]

Uncle Tony you may well know or be interested in Chrysler Australia's Muscle cars such as the Pacer, E 55 Charger 340 E 38 and E49 R/T Charger with 265 straight six fitted with triple webbers Worth a look 👀 👌

[@rickkephartactual7706]

Just incase I forget (I can reliably forget now) Merry Christmas Uncle Tony and viewers!

[@Ecosse57]

and to you!

[@alrui]

It looks cool, like my 22 Challenger I got the shaker "scoop" more for looks, it add zip in performance dues to the design & modern throttle bodies, etc.

[@kevincowan4887]

Uncle Tony professional bench racer extraordinaire

[@6ford9]

Perfect explanation of the tear drop.

[@timmetzger844]

Back in the late 60's early 70's a lot of guys put those on their 62-65 Chevy II/ Novas. Nice looking but, didn't do anything for performance.

[@ronhood7773]

Great job explaining Ford's hood ORNAMENT!!!

[@lynnrunningdeer7364]

Ford was the teacher who allowed you to use the notes that you took in class for the test. The others gave you the test and you could use the book. Ford's worst engine design was the 400 in which the casting and shift was so bad that the lifter valley in the back corner would crack. Their best was the three hundred six cylinder. It did what it was supposed to and was nearly indestructible.

[@kphrogge1912]

That was depended on it it was the Michigan casting plant or the Cleveland casting plant I have run a 400 it did quite well very tough and durable engine however it did have it setbacks like the 4-in stroke the 3-in main journal but torque out the eyeballs

[@8000RPM.]

"I'm a Mopar guy",...he then gives a historical dissertation better then Wikipedia.

[@terrycarter8929]

I am a Diehard FOMOCO enthusiasts. I love the old over new but grew up in the Foxbody Era. I still own my first driving car a 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente and my second car a 1983 Mercury Capri. I bought as many magazines with the 60s muscle cars. My friends were Mopar nuts and loved their Land yachts. Lol. I would consider a mid to late 60s Baracuda. But as usual Mopar is too expensive and not in my budget. Lol. I knew all about what the teardrop hood buldge was for and wanted one for my Comet. Thanks to Dyno Don Nicholson I can get Fiberglass parts for my car.

[@michaelstansfield319]

It's not about function, it's about the coolness factor. Take a look at the Ford factory hood scoop on the 1970-71 Torino GT and 72 Gran Torino Sport. Low profile scoop, but the opening would have been within the boundary layer, so little to no ram air effect. I had a 72 Gran Torino Sport, so I do have some experience with some of Ford's "better" ideas, and they weren't functional, but they looked so cool.

[@andrewscott8892]

In my 77 Camaro I took the form signal light out replaced it with a funnel taped a large wrapping paper cardboard tube to it and the air filter housing lmao... Customer ram RAM JET for my straight six baby

[@panamared354]

I think the big three manufactures back in the 60's had good cars and some bad, I had several cars from each. I can relate to Tony because some of my friends are one manufacture only and the rest are junk but it's all good. My daily driver is a Chevy truck I bought it because I like the styling and my hotrod is a Ford. By the way Tony Ford did have a dual sump oil pan with rear pick up.

[@sc3ku]

Liked for the masterful “FORD” edit at 2:41

[@robertschreiber8099]

No hate mail from me, U'T. 20 odd years, ago, I built, I believe it's a Monogram, model of the '63 T-bolt. It DID have the air box, and tubing, you just talked about. It didn't occur to me, what was really going on.