Over the Thanksgiving weekend, we reformed the crossmember back to its original position, installed a new radiator and rebuilt the fans, got some pretty cruddy headlights from someone NOT on the forums (seals are compromised and each light is has cracked plastic so each are exposed to the elements to the rear of the headlight assembly - we'll see how long the bulbs last - ergh) added fresh coolant and all is - uh - ok.
Hood was removed and rebent. Definitely still looks like it was in a fender bender but the hood does latch again - sort of. The primary a latch works on a sort of cam that snaps into another cam that is connected to the hood latch cable. It will not snap in because the cams are grossly misaligned because the latch assembly itself took the bulk of the impact. The Mazda emblem is gone too
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Another hoodlatch is on the way, but for local driving the car is back on the road dependent on the secondary latch. No speeds > 40 mph and we are good to go. So....car is alive again - no drive-ability issues and engine and trans are completely unscathed - thankfully!!!
Here is the "revised" car:
![Image](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6447153757_ddca18e79c_b.jpg)
Untitled by ganue, on Flickr
And repeating the pic from the previous work-log page... - the "before" picture:
![Image](http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6232/6332799321_f7a043b215.jpg)
Untitled by ganue, on Flickr