Without using hood pins, what is the best way to "lock" an engine compartment???

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

Without using hood pins, what is the best way to "lock" an engine compartment??? 

[Brock Samson]

i have a chrome molly bike chain - that will loop through the hood latch and connect below the Lic. plate. with a master pad lock, cures battery theft which once happened to me in the early '80s...

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

i have a chrome molly bike chain - that will loop through the hood latch and connect below the Lic. plate. with a master pad lock, cures battery theft which once happened to me in the early '80s...

Pics??? 

[Brock Samson]

camera broke,.. 'n i'm not happy about that one bit.

[A383Wing]

inside hood release pull latch? I'm sure that was not the answer you were looking for.....

[Brock Samson]

yeah, loops through that square hoop and then down behind the grill, length of the chain is crucial however and my old bike chain is the perfect fit.

[Rolling_Thunder]

there's a place by me that sells hood locks - it is a L shaped bracket that gets affixed to the bottom of your hood - another piece gets mounted to your rad support and cas a cable that goes into the passenger compartment...    you push the end of the cable to lock it and use one of those round keys to unlock it by twisting and pulling out...     i had one on my charger when i was in High School... 

[six-tee-nine]

any pictures?

Not just batt theft, people steel anything these days. even at car shows, plug wires or air cleaners....etc nothing surprises me these days. I had a fella once that had a pair of turn signal lenses nicked of his car on a show. Worst of all they scuffed his paint job with a screwdriver while stealing them, the car was repainted about a month earlier.....

So this is an issue about these old cars that bugs me

[FLG]

A friend of mine actually has an electric lock he installed, works well. Only issue is if the battery is dead, but hes circumvented that by using one of those car chargers that charge through the cigarrette lighter which gives him enough juice to open the lock.

[Brock Samson]

 On the subject of theft. I once had both hood turn lenses broken and chipped where some ass wipe tried to nick them with the help of a screw driver.  They were a loose fit and one actually popped out on the freeway (I had to pull over and run back and retrieve from the second lane of U.S. 101) so, i had epoxied them in from the underside of the hood, so when ass wipe tried to pry it out of the hood all they did was chip off the corners. I've since bought an entire new hood signal assembly which is sitting in a box with about 10 or so other fresh parts I've yet to install... 
I don't much worry about stuff like that too much anymore, seems as time has gone by most folks have more respect for the rarity of the old iron, of course, there's always gonna be the envious haters out there that have the need to carve "Jose" into the fender,  which also happened to my ride once while parked outside a shop.
But my car is getting pretty ratty ten years after being Resto-rodded and it's last paint job, So i don't sweat everything like i did when it was fresh.

[Highbanked Hauler]

  I had a hood latch and cable from a Volare which would be good as long as they don't get inside the car.

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

yeah, loops through that square hoop and then down behind the grill, length of the chain is crucial however and my old bike chain is the perfect fit.

This is what I have been doing on mine