aftermarket hood/fender issues, anyone else?

[GreyHoundSteve]

Well after eight months of work on my 67 we finally got the front end back together and on the truck and when we did i have to admit that we are less than pleased with the fit. Heres what i got, 1 original passenger fender, an after market driver fender, and original hood and an original but modified grill. Heres the problem. Ive got almost a 1 inch gap at the front of the hood between the fender and hood. The grill has no gap at all between the fenders but the hood isnt even close to closing the gap between the fenders. Does anyone have a solution to this problem other than just splitting the difference of the gap between the fenders? Even if we did that the back of the fenders are shimmed out about as far as i can get them without them looking odd in proportion to the doors and there is only a minimum gap in between the back of the fenders and hood but the front has a huge gap. I thought about chopping some off the grill but that would be allot of work, any other solutions to this problem?