Here's a confused PS. What I said is not true. The mounting bolts (I haven't seen them for awhile) face into the engine bay, but they're flush against the cowl, not the hood. It would be a tricky maneuver.
I think the solution is in the geometry of the hinges.
I used to have a '49 Chevy coupe with a column shifter. Every so often the transfer rods that redirected the column shift moves to shift the gears would get double jointed and not do anything, and I would have to pop the hood and wiggle them back and forth to line them up. That always embarrassed me on a date. Looking back, though, maybe I impressed the girls with my mechanical wizardry.
Fancy fix or not, that's why I think the problem with the hood hinges is their geometry. Too bad I can't get in there and wiggle the tar out of them.
