How cool is this? Chopping a top is a blast.It is making a regular old car look nasty.The fun part is lifting it off for the first time and setting it down down low,climbing in and seeing for the first look through your custom windows. Oh yea ya got to place your arm on the window opening like your driving to see how cool it feels, YEA just right! Thanks for the pictures guys. Now this is what I call fun.
Yep. "Parts Chaser", "Yard Truck"... It still lives a working life. It had just sat still long enough that it got chopped. Here's the '56:
Great thread. Here's my pics. HAMB chop with Killer and a bunch of HAMB friends. Starting point. I'm not so sure about cutting up my car! Success! Current progress.
As a kid in the 50's, I always liked the look of the mail slot windows in the salt flats racers. Guess it stuck with me.
First cut: The roof on the floor: Oh my God! What have we done??? Oh yaaaaaa, now were gettin' somewhere: .
Drilled out rivets and some bolts and my top was off. Is that cheating? Not many pictures on this computer, but you get the idea. 5&3/4" 4&1/2" in the back window