If a door, hood, or any other panel gap is not consistent, your car will never look one hundred percent right. This is especially true on white cars.

The hood of my 1981 C3 Corvette never looked right. I have no idea if it has been this way since day one or if external factors made it look totally out of whack!

I know for sure that the delaminated headlight reinforcement did not help the situation, but I will never know the whole story.

Regardless, all I can do is try to make the gap where the front edge of the hood meets the nose of the car, as close to perfect as possible.

To accomplish this, I fabricated a couple of shims using gasket material since it was the only thing available at the time. Plus, the gasket material is easy to cut which made this project a bit easier.

As the video shows, I closed the unsightly gap pretty darn well, and while a better and more permanent solution would've been to completely disassemble the Corvette's front end to reglue the metal reinforcement bar properly, a project of such magnitude would've taken months.

This was a good and quick way to make the car more presentable so I chose this approach instead.

And the results prove that I made the right choice.

So if you want to align your C3 Corvette hood to make it look as close to perfect as possible, this video is for you!

Thank you for watching!

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DISCLAIMER: Even though I like to wrench on my Corvettes and most of my videos are of a howto nature, I am not responsible nor liable should you decide to follow my musings on the subject.

I am a DIYer, and the repairs and work shown are for my benefit and entertainment. If videos appear to give technical howto advice, that is not my intention.

Working on a vehicle can be dangerous. If you're not confident, qualified, or lack the tools to do the job correctly and safely, hire a mechanic.