Help! - trying to identify a vintage hood

[k_c_parts 0]

Good Morning.

 

I have come across this hood in my travels. I bought it because it is a great piece on its own. I was wondering if any member can help me identify the year and model the hood might have fit?

 

Thanks for your assistance and time!

 

Kevin

 

 

 

[SousaKerry 502]

 

Need to see pictures of he back end to be sure and I am no Round hood expert but I would guess between 62-64, and as far as the model it can be difficult to nail down as the same hoods fit several different models.  Based on the sticker I would guess a Lawn Ranger, but only a guess

[k_c_parts 0]

Here are some additional shots...

 

Thanks again!

 

[GlenPettit 1,717]

Those gold light bezels & lenses were only used and available from Wheel Horse for the first 6 months of 1963, they came on the 953 tractor.  Those brackets may not be standard, someone had just installed them on the outside of that hood, but the bezels are very scarce and valuable now, I'm aware of a nice pair of those bezels (one was cracked) selling for $200.  The bezel was made of clear plastic, painted gold inside first and then silver as the reflector insides.

The original plastic bezels were thin and where the screws held it directly to the metal bracket under the hood, the tractor vibration would cause the the plastic threads to strip out, destroying the bezel (a rubber gasket was needed), very few survived.   Also, the lenses are very difficult to reinstall in the bezel when the bulbs were replaced.  

The second half of '63, starting in July, Wheel Horse switched a very strong an all-metal dual bezel and lenses held in with o-rings (called the 1054 lens) and these were used on all the '64 1054's and as a factory replacement for the damaged lenses on the early 953's. 

We have both of these lenses available.

Glen

 

Edited August 6, 2013 by GlenPettit

[CasualObserver 3,409]

Glen, the lights on that hood are the HL-22 headlight kit, the optional light kit before the HL-5 was introduced.  It's on price lists from 61-64. (and from what I've been told in the past, yes, the same lights were used in the 953.)

 

k_c_parts.... I'd say that hood is from a 1962 502/552/702.   it doesn't appear to have the reinforcing rolled edge on the long edge under the decal.  (I can't remember the "real" word for it)  I think they started that in 63. 

[k_c_parts 0]

Thanks to everyone for your help and knowledge! I really appreciate you time and expertise...