just chopped my 49 ford

looks like it's well on it's way!

 

looks good

how much did you take out?

 

looks good dood

 

very cool. what color is it going to end up being? chop looks good.

 

Looks like it was too easy,LOL!!! Nice job!

 

Nice job!

Fuzz

 

Definitely looks good. Looks like you used alot of the C-pillar rather than making a new piece. How'd that work out?

 

I did the same thing when i cut my 49 and it was too easy using the left over piece than to make a new one up. i really dig the chop, cant wait to see more pics of it as you get more of it done!!!!

 

I had wondered why most used a new piece instead. I thought maybe the shape was that far off that a new piece was easier and better. Looks like not so much. Cool.

 

Nice Job, looks great!

 

sweet! looks good. mine is coming along very similar but mine is less chopped i think

 

We took out 4 1/2/ in front and around 6 in the rear

 

Because the more you cut out the less the metal will line up. It will look like two contoured pieces with a serious valley in the middle if it meets at all. On a more mild chop you can try to use a lot of stock metal with small patches. On my Merc which was not radical, it would have been a disaster as the crown is way different, nothing would have lined up.

 

Looks really well thought out and will have a killer profile. Did you move the straight pillar back or are you leaning them? How did that roof cut at the a pillar work out? Looks like less of a valley than when people make the \ / cuts in either end. Very cool!

 

nice........dave

 

You hit that one just right! Nice...............

 

that worked out good because we moved the back window forward about 4 1/2 inches we only had to put like a 3" wide triangle in there and in the end it really only needed a scim coat of mud.

 

looks really good...thats all i got to say about that.

 

Gonna slant the B-pillar?

Dave
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Nice, I like those proportions. I like how a sedan looks chopped when the rear window is moved forward, it makes it look more like a coupe.

 

looks good

 

Looks real good man. Gonna do my 49' as soon as I finish welding all my patch panels in. Do you have any more pics?

 

just streight ones

 

I cant get all my pics on here but I have a bunch on our web sight www.slackerscc.com under project cars and will have more posted soon

 

Really? That much? I see the 4 1/2 in the front but it looks like less in the rear. Where did you measure from? Or was it cut til it looks right?

 

Cant get enough!This thing has that Frank Palmer look!

 

Basically it was originally cut at 5 1/2 in the rear but was moved around till it looked right and I guesstimate 6" in the c pillar.
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Heres some more pics

 

some pics of day one


A pic of the top in bondo befor we shaved off about 80% of it