I saw a real nice all steel flip nose on an old coupe at a car show in my home town last summer. IT was pretty cool the way he had it set up. I will see if I can find my pics of it and see if you think you can modify it some to do just the hood. The car has a hood release inside that you pull, and when you pulled it the whole nose popped forward about 4 inches then you could flip it forward for the bottoms of the fenders to clear the doors. I was going to use it to make my 46 hearse into an all steel flip nose, but the shop burned down with my hearse in it. If you could make it pop just your hood forward on slides, and then flip back it would be pretty sweet.