i recently got into an accident with my '95 contour. i need a new hood, and was looking around in junk yards. my friend said he has a '98 hood in my color and i was wondering if i were to but a '98 grill and '98 headlights if this would fit in somewhat ok. if anyone knows or if anyone has tried this please reply for me.
This guy is doing it right now. You may want to contact him... But I'm thinking its more work then you want to get yourself into
Not just grille and headlights .. bumper and fenders too at the least, probably more. It's only really worth the cost if you either plan to keep the car forever or already have it extensively modded (as tour96se does).
EDIT: bah! AliasJerk
I read a while back that you need to modify the subframe corners so the headlights will clear.
Might as well just swap the whole front clip...
Do it man! Do it! Don't let a bit of challenge stop you. I think the hood deal in the same color is enough to start the ball rolling.
We had an '05 Focus guy in Dezert Focus change that ugly new front end to an '04, which meant the same sorts of challenges and he shopped for all correctly colored parts and didn't end up having to paint anything. Very nice job and he hadn't damaged the car, just wanted to get the good front end looks back. It was well worth it.....
or you could buy either one of my running '95 Contours for $1000.
Bummer, is your car basically white, or....?
Paint is a very sensitive subject, you pretty much just get what you pay for unless you're bloody lucky. I've never been lucky so I paid $850 to paint a CF Hood, my wing (3 pieces) and a billet aluminum fuel door. Well spent though as it was really nice workmanship, way better than the stock paint. I don't know how ask for factory orange peel...
So in your case probably quite a bit, and people that know someone in the body/paint business are about as lucky as those that know a lawyer or a pig.....
Good luck to you!
