[Rokcrln]

Next I used a 4" x .035 cut off wheel to remove the front braces of both hoods. I cut the front edge off the 68 right at the front edge and the 70 about a 1/2" up the front lip of the hood. This will give you plenty to trim back on the 68 hood and a good starting point to fine tune the contack area of the 70 front lip. I then had to remove some small pieces of the 68 front side edges of the hood so the 70 brace would fit inside the 68 hood. Save these pieces you cut out so you can trim them and weld them back in later. I used the holes in the ridge of the 68 hood to line up the 70 brace and I used sheet metal screws to hold it in place for now. Then i fit the hood back on the truck to see how things lined up at this point. I liked the fit so I traced a line right at the edge of the grill shell to trim off next.