Small custom hood latch options

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The Walking Thread.....

At SEMA this year I saw a couple first gens that were using BMW dual pin set ups. I thought of that too ans liked the fact that there were 2 connection point, one at each corner, but thought it would be more difficult to align.

Does anyone have anymore information regarding a dual pin type hood latch? I have a pair of aerocatches but they just do not mount any where that makes sense visually or structurally on my early mustang. Right now I am looking at the Mercedes E320 latch from about 2000.

Here is the latch that would mount to the core support pn 210-880-09-60


Here is the striker part. pn 210-880-10-60



The stuff is relatively cheap and pretty small. It's german engineered so <sarcasm font> it should be bullet proof <sarcasm font> but access to these would be pretty good if I had a cable failure and it wouldn't be hard to build in redundancy if I wanted. Cable would route outside of the engine compartment so it should still work if I'm on fire.

One of each would go in each corner, in front of the core support, right where the factory adjustable hood bumpers mount. Sounds awesome, right?