In case anyone is curious about my project...
I compete in rockcrawling competitions. It's kind of like an extreme type of four wheeling. You may have seen some of our events on ESPN2 or the Speed Channel. I am building a new vehicle for the 2005 season and I have the opportunity to make it resemble any four wheel drive vehicle I want. I dig the way the X5 hood/grill looks, so that's the way I have decided to go. The rest of the body will be made of plastic or thin sheetmetal and lexan. The vehicle is not nearly wide enough to use a full X5 hood, but I think it is wide enough to cut the center part out of an X5 hood and use that, possibly cut a little bit shorter. I started building it earlier this month, and I am now to the point that I need to make sure the hood is going to fit. All I have is a crappy camera-phone pic of the buggy as it sits right now, but I'll attach that so you can kind of get an idea what it is I'm building. The buggy will be registered with the competition sanctioning body as a BMW X5. The only actual BMW parts will be the hood/grill though.
