I think I have the 31 sitting' about where she needs to be. The back tires are slightly under the fender edge. My buddy is fixing the rear fenders, so they're off right now. No, I'm not running half fender-less.. Now I'm thinking about 3" outta the pillars would be proper. Thoughts?
I don't know man. I am normally the first guy to say chop it but I am sort of digging the look you have right there. I am thinking the stock height shows off the killer rake really well. I am good either way, nothing better than a chopped Model "A" .....love it.
Here's a photo of a 1929 five window with a three inch chop; too much in my opinion. I've seen two inch chops that looked a lot better. It's your car, do what you want. I'd leave it stock height. I've been slapping together my 1930 Sportcoupe to sell; every time I climb into it I have to duck down. I'm 5'-10" tall, and my coupes roof is stock height. Sent from my iPad using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
i think thats more than three,mine is 2-3/4" yours looks like 4",or more. Sent from my iPad using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Here's a vintage photo. Stock height with the right rake can look really cool. Sent from my iPad using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
yea, but you need 15" wheels and full wheelcovers to pull that look off, no self-respecting HAMBer will do THAT!
I would sans the wheel covers. Never cared for wheel covers, for me pull 'em off instant hotrod. I still run 15s on about everything. But I have been known to run 15s and 14s.
You could be right. That photo showed up on my local community Facebook group. When I commented on it, the owners sister claimed her brother said it was a three inch chop. There's currently a 1929 Coupe body for sale on the H.A.M.B. With a four inch chop; it does look like the same chop as the photo I posted. The chop on your '29 looks just right. The best chopped model A's I've seen all had less than three inches taken out. It's my opinion, that unless you're building a salt flat racer, only chop enough out of the top to improve the proportions, not to make it look chopped (Otherwise the car will look like Godzilla sat on its roof!). Sent from my iPad using The H.A.M.B. mobile app Four inch chop.
There is actually a ratio that gets used that is about perfect. i can never remember what it is when I want to but someone will remember and post it. Maybe @falcongeorge will know it he's good with that sort of thing.
The golden mean or golden ratio. Dates back to Euclid. I've posted SO MANY, LITERALLY THOUSANDS of period photos of REAL hot rods with wheelcovers over the years, I just cant even be bothered with dispelling all the HAMB history revisionist rubbish anymore, so I'll just pretend you didn't say that... Sufficient to say, if you are here to try to find out how old hot rods looked back in the day, you are in the wrong place.
I know that hub caps were the rule, I just never liked them. Not even when they were still cool. You are correct hub caps were the name of the game at least until custom wheels became affordable(after the last recession of the '50s) then it was mixed bag, wheels, wheels with spyders, wheels with or without. Could have been that the "lost generation" and their experimentation with mind altering substances had something to do with that. The old man always ran hubcaps. clear up until he died unless he had wheels. he always gave me a hard time about not running them. They were more his style than mine perhaps because he was there from the later '30s, so he was part of the game from moderately early on until the end.
Thanks for the feed back. I'll probably leave it be for now, and just concentrate on getting it up and driving for the summer. Then maybe next fall, when I take it back apart to paint it, I'll think more on whacking on it..
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