gotta love those mercedes engineered hinges.

Same thing happened to me while piloting a 190E destined to the scrap yard. The front bumper and core support were trashed so we had to wire the hood closed with some ... speaker wire we found in the carcas. We were like.. oh that will hold for the 5 miles... wrong.. 4 miles down the road at 40 mph the hood pops open.. Just as i got off the phone with eagleco(towing me)... saying maybe the hood will hold.. We would have kept going but the hood was like a giant air brake making the caprice wagon work even harder than it should.