Customs EXTRA! EXTRA! "Sexy Sadie" Gets a Haircut! Shoebox Hardtop Chop! UPDATE!!

Well... Not quite yet... but tomorrow she will! Hopefully by the end of the weekend a majority of the metalwork will be done so Sexy Sadie (the bare metal car) will have the roofline of Andreas' car (the painted one.)

I've been waiting for this for about six months. My brother in law (RacerJohnson) was in Iraq until the end of January and I didn't want him to miss out, so we could have done it in February. Then I brought up the idea of making it a club chop, and some of the clubmembers that were are little further away thought this weekend would be a good one. We had a flood again this year in Fargo, and I thank God it wasn't as bad as last year's, because if it was I would've had to wait longer to chop the shoebox.

I've been saving my 1,000th post for the last week in order to introduce this thread. AntiBling will be on hand with his camera as I asked him to be the official "HAMB Coordinator" for the weekend. My hope is that you guys will be updated every hour or so with what is going on.

The plan is to both chop and hardtop my shoebox so it will look like the picture below. This is Swedeshoebox's car before he "Littonized" it with the Stude headlights and the Olds taillights. I really liked the simple, elegant chop, yet you can still tell that the car is highly customized. Here are before and (hopefully) after shots of what my car will look like...

I'd like to thank in advance my fellow Suedes Members for their help this weekend, I'm sure with lots of eyes around the job will be more thorough and executed very well. I want to thank Andreas (swedeshoebox) for the inspiration and extra help regarding the chop. I hope my car turns out half as nice as his! I'd like to thank the Chrome Czars for thier support as well. I'd also like to thank AntiBling for his technical support, and my girlfriend Sadie for her understanding and support throughout the last five or six months. Finally, thanks to everyone on the HAMB who has helped me with this build whether it be with moral or technical support! Thanks!

-P40-

 

Wow, that looks great!!!

 

I think it will look great too 63cadguy- I can't wait to get her braced up tonight and start cutting tomorrow. Andreas did such a beautiful job on his car and I just hope mine will turn out as nice as his! Wish us luck HAMBville!

 

Good luck with your work
I want see it ready. I hope it will be good as Andreas chop
I have a bunch of pics taken on his car with tape messure taken on the roof pm me if you are intressed of them.

/Stefan

 

Thanks Stefan! Your shoebox is kickin' ass so far too! I might just need some luck, you never know! I'm so excited to get the ball rolling tomorrow morning... I can't wait!

 

I'm stopping by tomorrow to check out the big cut. See you then. Jake.

 

Good luck for your chop! the Andreas car is one of my all time favorite hardtop shoeboxes and (IMHO) could be the perfect chopped and hardtop of a shoe

And good luck trying to sleep tonight, if it was me I am sure my brain would be spinning until 5 minutes before I had to get up!

 

I cant wait to follow this thread. I know from experience that a lot of help is a good thing when taking on a project like this.

 

that is a really good looking hardtop. I like the flow of the roofline,

 

Can't wait...I have a 51 Vicky that is going to be chopped also.

 

Beautiful, it really is proportioned well, an all that!

 

Way nice kep us updated on the chop

 

Zep- I looked hi and lo for the "perfect" shoebox chop, and in my eyes, Andreas' car just does it for me. I'm hoping I get some sleep, the layout starts in 8 hours, hopefully the ceremonial first cut will be in 9 or 10!

 

Thanks Timmy- I'm very happy to be able to involve my fellow Suedes members

Boones- me too! the roofline is what really makes or breaks the car, especially the top edge of the quarter windows.

The wife's car on Mad Fab, right? Maybe I can come out there and help you with it when I know what I'm doing...

I hope I can pull it off! (Nice job on the '59 so far by the way!)

Will do Russco, like I said, I've got an official HAMB coordinator lined up... we should get things rolling by noon tomorrow!

Thanks for all of the support guys! I hope to impress!

 

cant wait to see it done man keep us posted

 

I should probably come out tomorrow... call me if I forget and you have time.

 

Bumping this up, getting ready here, I'll be taking pics and posting them on here as they go.

 

I post the pics i have taken on Andreas shoebox when i were in his work shop ffor 1 ½ years ago

look her
http://pbckt.com/sL.dzGP

/Stefan

 

Ready and waiting.

 

Looking forward for to seeing a great chop coming out of the midwest, those of us hacks here in Montana will be watching.

Whats the taillight treatment on the blue chev? in the lower left

 

Starting the bracing:



After receiving some crap for not wearing a hood:



And then some help from his fellow Suedes members:

 

Nothing right now, shaved the stock ones so far.

 

Lets get ready to RUMBLLLLLLLLLE!!!!!!!!

 

Joel cutting the gutters:



Suedes:

 

I like to it see done

but cuting is the easy thing

/Stefan

 

Wish I could be there, cant wait to see some more progress!

 

Eh having some technical difficulties and these are in backwards order but I'm too lazy to switch them.

 

Thanks AntiBling! We're cookin' with grease now!