Customs Restyling of a mild caddy custom and convertable top chop from start to finish

ok were gona ruin a prefectly good mild custom caddy convertble , and restyle it . alright were not actualy going to ruin it but bring it around to greatness. the car already has the door handles and most of the badges shaved and has a desent paint job this was an oridgonal pink car from the factory and the convertable is in great shape.its lowered has new tires and fairly fresh motor.basicly a vary nice car the motor is dressed up and motor compartment painted.we were going to just repaint the car and call it a day but i dont think i can have my wife driving around in a car that we didnt build.any ways it has evolved into a complete restyling and new paint interrior sterio tire and chrome
the list of mods is exstensive and we are bring the pink paint back but nothing like cadilac ever did
heres the list of mods not nessesaraly in order and a complete list
chop the convertable top & make it funtionable
re locate the gas filler into the trunk ( its behind the rear licesnse plate )
shave the caddy embleme and key on deck lid
fill the liscense plate cut out on the deck lid
shave the tail lights on the fins
shave the mirror and antena
exstend the rockers to hide the pinch weld
rework the front wheel opening
make a grill opening in the rear
custom ball grill front and rear
custom hand made tail lights
restyle the front fenders to meet the front bumper
fill the cowl but not the whippers holes
change the dash
weld the front fenders to the rockers
round the door corners
weld the cowl to the fenders ( maybe )
round the back of the hood corners
rework the skirt openings
lets have some fun follow us down this crazy path its byfar to late theres no turning back

 

weve aready reworked the deck lid and relocated the gas filler neck to the trunk as well as shaving the antenna on the front fender

ok its time to tare this bad boy a part and get to cutting!!!





we also have to fix this hood

 

go bruce go









bruce has the top striped off

 

This will be awesome

 

Looking sick bro

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alright now we can look at the a pillars and figure out ware were going to make our cuts






we felt the the best place to take the 3" out of the a pillar was at the vary top now ive never did this before and seamed odd but the a pillar was almost strait up and down at the top and would require the least amount of realignment also the top of the windshield about 4" anyways tilts back so why not just got rid of most of the lean back or tilt back of the apillars and glass tony gomes at tri valley auto glass agreed with me and my guys on this sure hope its the right desision cutting the a pillar at the top did have me worried about changing the angle to top of windshield opening because thats were the front bow rests

 

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cant wait for more updates this should be cool

 

Very nice. Can't wait to see this one come along.

 

the biggest chalenge to a convertable top chop is getting all the bows to clear the back seat top when folding that will come later i want to get the a pillars cut set and almost fully welded so tony can come out and cut the old glass to see if its going to work
soooooo lets get to cutting some shit up
remember GOOD layout is every thing so MASTER it

first we have to lay out our curs on the a pillar the gene winfield way









alright chopping up cars is not a crime ( only in brooklyn and italy )

 

we like to make all our cuts BUT not cutting all the way threw leaving alil piece atached untill ALL the cuts are made then make the finial cuts with a sawsall it makes removale easyer esp when its a whole top your chopping not just a windshield frame

 

hope you guys are ok with the play by play






some times i get in some crazy posistions i want STRAIT cuts is why and seeing where your cutting makes a big differance



like sex you can never have enuff pertection


man are we there yet were off like a heard of turtles

 

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sawsall time
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time to line up the a pillars
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lets getem set get it dan
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cutting the mounting piont or pivit point of the convertable top free
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ok lets figure out ware were going to set the rear of the top
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Diggin' it...

 

all 7 parts together
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Looking good Mr A. See you in Santa Maria.

 

ok lets get a look with a sheet on the top and a test fit

 

tonys gona cut the old glass and see how it fits once we get vthe thumbs up buy him we can start on the top frame

 

lookin good man

 

tony gomes from tri valley auto glass cutting the windshield
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Sheet Tony ..shoulda had you do my car in my garage ..didn't know you did house calls. I got better beer than Alex ..

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You just made that caddy look a million times better... I alwaus thought a 61-4 cad would look great with a Carson or Gaylord style top on it with a low profile.

 

tony finishs the test winshield WOW
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ok now with thw windshield test fit and the big thumbs up from tony we can get on with the rest of the chop

 

That is gonna look AWESOME Alex! Go man, go!!!

 

nice work Alex. Got an unrelated question...I spy the 63 tbird in the background, any progress on that project?

 

Good Heavens, that is going to be one beautiful looking top!

 

Looking real good. Sub'd to the thread.