so been a while since i posted recently went to work for a hot rod shop (snake river street rods) and they let me loose on a 48 plymouth here are a few pics getting things measured bracing it up welding the fenders on full frontal putting a beak on her sprocket getting the job started this is the point when you say "well we got this far lets cut it off" oh but first back window gone to late now top is off jesus managed to get the whole crew in this shot except me top going back on tackin it up hmm b pillar angle? thinkin i like it gettin the back window fitted b pillar fixing i am liking it getting the rear drivers window shaped lmao now this is stance! well that was day one on the 48 chop more to come tommorow thanks for the look randy
we are chopping it now 4 1/2 front and 4ish in the rear lmao it was whatever the car dictated next for mods we are molding the headlight rings and frenching the buckets also we are thinking a 53 chevy car grill might look good the car is sitting on an art morrison chassis it has a parallel 4 link in the rear tubular upper and lower front a arms power rack and pinion air ride front and rear it is mini tubbed in the back for some decent size tires custom built front structure and core support to hold fenders so we could weld them to the body it also has a modestly built 340 and auto trans just building a fun driver
here are a few more pics getting the rear window corner shaped starting on the drivers door pillars checkin proper elbow clearance busted out some panel supports for the interior of the trunk engine shot chassis shots aired up thanks for lookin randy
please don't flame me for the chassis or powertrain it was not my choice i just get paid to work on these someone asked so i posted haven't seen many chopped Plymouths so figured i would show the one i am chopping randy
thanks i just want to give the guy a badass looking car as far as simple and low buck goes lmao all i can say is guy will love this car when it is done he already bought a chopped 46 plymouth and it was garbage rusty as hell,and poorly done some spots had 1 1/2 " of bondo we found him this barn find and are in the process of building his dream he didnt want a taildragger which these cars almost beg to be turned into so it has been a challenge
"he didnt want a taildragger which these cars almost beg to be turned into" i'm fighting that decision right now with my Plym. the business coupes are hard to make look right with a chop, but the club coupes can only be improved by one! you're doing an awesome job.
well a little more today started on the passenger side got the back window tacked to the roof started welding and making filler panels thanks for looking randy
well day 4 on the 48 plymouth chop started making the c piller panels sprocket getting his tig on the other side looking pretty good getting the last few pieces made the filler between the trunk and back window now it just welding and grinding for a while thanks randy
Nice work! Just a tad curious on how the corners of the trunk filler will be finished. Staying tuned in.
Looks great. Really nice lines! Too bad you don't have a pullmax as you could have fabbed up replacement quarter window corners like is done sometimes on 49-51 Mercs. It saves the massive labor of welding/grinding a dozen or so relief cuts in each corner.
thanks for the replies everyone man i wish we had all the badass tools we are a fairly new shop with very basic tools as we get going the tools will come as for the corners of the trunk filler piece the pics make it look wierd , it has a really nice natural looking flow i may extend them a little just to cut the angle down a bit
Nice amount of chop and the work looks nice so far. Agree that all those relief cuts is a lot of welding and grinding! So why did you weld the fenders on? Just trying to make it more smooth?
thanks again all here is a little better pic of the corner and i agree about the extra work but i used what had i can only talk the boss man into so many tools i think the end result will work just take longer the reason for welding the fenders was final fit it would have taken longer to gap them and then take the chance of chipping the edges so we just built an inner structure and welded them plus it should look real cool when done
Don't worry about the chassis and drive train. If anyone bitches its likely because they are jealous...who would not want a 340 in such a ride? Oh yeah...serious tin work. Where are you in the tri-cities? .
thank for the comments all snake river street rods shop is located in finley washington just outside of kennewick
I like the flow of the chop. I build those high dollar street rods as well. You just have to appreciate the work and disregard the running gear. Instead of welding up all those pie cuts in a fairly flat piece I would just curve the radiused area and fill it with a new piece in the flat area to save time and grinding.
yeah i cut out alot of the pie cut crap and replaced it with full pieces here is a shot of the start going to replace the tops of the door corners had to run those through the wheel and shape them a bit also every part of this darn car is curved LOL
customer showing up on monday hope he likes it LOL here is a pic of the first 46 he purchased it was poorly done with a ton of filler(notice the bend in the rear window frame) rear glass didnt fit when we blasted it it almost fell apart it was so rusty i think we have improved a bit
so a little update chop is going along as planned not much to show there welding and grinding so on to the front of the car the front of a 48 plymouth is somewhat flat and not as curvy as the rest of the car soooooo lets fix that stock dechromed sort of a square hole in a round peg LOL so the customer is a mopar guy and wants the car to remain mopar and he wants to retain the look of the 48 plymouth but gave us a bit of artistic license so found some pics of a 40 desoto and thought hmmmmmmm hit up a buddy and sure enough he had a set of front grill shells oh my let the fun begin a little test fit not to bad little metal work should be fine other side mocked up tommorow should be interesting cuttin out half a fender and reshaing the entire fron of the car LOL and then praying the new grills we ordered fit the holes thanks for looking randy
Looks great so far, I like the angle of the B pillars. Follows the C pillar angle, and is more severe than most I've seen before. Grill looks like it was made for that car, I'm keen to follow along.
thanks i layed the b pillar forward a ton because i wanted to keep the integrity of the rear side window i see many of these cars when chopped the front side window looks a mile long and the rear side window look tiny always thought that could be improved as for the grill yeah it is a perfect look for the car i just have to make it fit now lol Randy
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