The hood stretches nearly half the length of the car to contain its engine, a 4.9-liter in-line 6, which came with about 150 horsepower.
Acres of hood stretch out before the driver, which yields a throwback sensation of power (like piloting a cigarette boat), but you peer out through a pillbox slit of glass rather than the usual long-sloped high windshield you're used to if you drive anything made after 1980.
But Mr. Nissl expressed particular pride in the trunk lid, which featured extended lines beginning on the hood and stretching back to a large spoiler.
From a curbside vantage, the elongated wheelbase, stretched hood and sloped windshield contribute to an impression that the cabin is now in tow behind a four-horse hitch up front.
The DBS and DB9 share a lightweight aluminum chassis and the 5.9-liter engine block under their stretched hoods.
Looking out the windshield, the hood seemed to stretch for miles.
That mandate is met when a lady cardsharp is found stretched out on the hood of a red Ferrari with a Jimmy Choo stiletto heel buried in her neck.
For the work above, 1974's "Trans-Fixed," Burden stretched himself out on the hood of a Volkswagen Beetle, nailing his hands to the exterior of the vehicle.
There was a bank of stoves that stretched down one side, with a steel hood from a Dixie Cup factory cafeteria.
McLaws, coming in on Hood's left, drove multiple attacks into the thinly stretched III Corps in the Wheatfield and overwhelmed them in Sherfy's Peach Orchard.
Hearing organs on the thorax consist of a tightly stretched membrane that is protected by an expanded hood.
