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Had a similar issue with our hood. The '54 has a 2 piece hood. While welding the two halves together to make a one piece hood, the metal was overheated and became distorted. Yes, we had oil canning.

Advice on this forum was either do what Bartamos suggested or as several others said "Just get a new hood".

I tried the heat and wet rag approach without success. I wasn't going to buy a new hood.

Solution was to cut out the damaged metal. Two rectangular areas were cut out. Patches were made and the edges flanged to make an overlap. The patches were welded in being careful not to overheat. I then plug welded two lengths of 3/4" angle iron under the hood to act as stiffeners to eliminate oil canning. You could see the patches and the angle iron stiffeners when the hood is up, so I added padding under the hood to hide them.