This is a 4" channel and chop. I have a gearbox and master under the floor. It's a little tight but not bad. The seat is the back seat out of a Tracker. Took this car to LA and back, it was about 12 hrs each way with fuel stops every 2-3 hours.
This one is my wife's father's. Nice car for little persons. I'am just a little too tall and a little to heavy to be comfortable, but my in-laws love it. They have 6 other hotrods and customs, but this is the only roadster.....so far.
All of these except the blue coupe are channeled 3 inches. The blue one is channeled 6. Most of the stance is made up with the stepping of the frames.
Not mine,but i just found these pics of a car that belongs to a racer i know up here. He's had it for many years. It's a restored early hot rod survivor.
you are wasting a ton of floor space and a lot of tubing ! if you lay 16 gage sheet metal on the frame with all the bends and humps it becomes a solid mas you don't need all that ! nice work though .
even chopped 4" I have lots of headroom, (I'm 5'8) full bench seat leaves the arm height perfect at the window. Its only like 1" less than a steel floor. tubing was free, bead rollers are $$. The whole floor probably weighs 50-60lbs, I'm talking 1 hand to lift.. The whole car will probably change anyway though..
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