Lucky you! Many find them to be eaisly bent or broken, they weigh more, they are more prone to allowing the wind or other forces to shut the hood while it is being worked under (most people don't have a second, service position, or don't know if they do have one.) For my money, hoods that hinge in the front are the way to go anyway. Some great hoods, as I see it: SAAB 900, Triumph Spitfire, Volvo 1800 series. I've owned all of those cars and find them very easy to work on. The SAAB hood can get in the way, but you can take it off with two small nuts in under a minute using hand tools. Of course, our friends over at General Meatheads put a more conventional hood on the last generation of 900 series cars, becuase they are terrible, terrible people with no souls to speak of. The Spitfire hood is hard to get off for VERY big jobs, but for most things it can stay there. For those who don't know what those look like, here y'all are:
