Top Chops
danny gabbard:
Your right dave, thats a real nice car. If you guys attempt a chop, Just my two cents but- Do a wire form shape of the roof first and shape and fit all you peices to a wire form. You could do it all in 3/16 to 1/4 steel rod and mig it to gether. And helps to use two roofs. Someday I would like to chop a oval window. Something I was thinking, When a car gets chopped, they start looking long and out of proportion. I would chop the top about 1/2 what people do and bring the bottom of all the side windows up the other 1/2. Now the car does not looked squashed. Remember you heard it hear !!!!
Zach Gomulka:
Quote from: louisb on February 26, 2010, 18:28:52 pm
Zach,
Explain what you mean by you raised the center up? I am not following you there.
Thanks,
--louis
Basically the front and rear are chopped the same amount, the B pillar not as much.
Worm:
Mike Martinez black chop top. That car blew my mind the first time I saw it.
louisb:
Quote from: danny gabbard on February 26, 2010, 23:34:01 pm
Your right dave, thats a real nice car. If you guys attempt a chop, Just my two cents but- Do a wire form shape of the roof first and shape and fit all you peices to a wire form. You could do it all in 3/16 to 1/4 steel rod and mig it to gether. And helps to use two roofs. Someday I would like to chop a oval window. Something I was thinking, When a car gets chopped, they start looking long and out of proportion. I would chop the top about 1/2 what people do and bring the bottom of all the side windows up the other 1/2. Now the car does not looked squashed. Remember you heard it hear !!!!
I am surprised you have not done one. That sounds like an interesting method. Rick M. shared an interesting way to chop a top with me but I will let him post it if he wants. My biggest issue is making sure I can fit all 6'4" of me into the car after whacking out a few inches. If I ever did one it would be a fairly mild chop and not as much as I have seen some cars slammed.
--louis
louisb:
Quote from: Worm on February 27, 2010, 00:26:31 am
Mike Martinez black chop top. That car blew my mind the first time I saw it.
Yeah I like that one too.
--louis
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