7 is the lucky number ... proportion is EVERYTHING. And double check those measurements to make sure you can fit without bending your spine at funny angles. Well, not too many funny angles anyways.
Take out 8" and raise the windshield header 2" for view and chop the rear opening 7" and no visor extend the roof foreward over and past the windshield 2"
I'm not sure if a normal-sized human would fit into a channeled and chopped T. Seriously. Check it out first. The chop looks good, but combined with a severe channel, you could end up with one of those Mold Skew Rodzzz that requires you to hang your leg out the window and steer with your balls.
I've done some measuring on my T coupe body, I'm 6'1" with no channel I can only go 4 inches, but if you leave the top open go 12 and wear gogles for the bugs! Goodluck!
Channel it first, get it on the frame at ride hieght and with the proper rake.... Then Chop it till it looks good. Chop STATISTICS are for posers....
well said- numbers bring out the STAN's -shit, that ain't nothin- I got a 10" CHOP Get it on the frame before settling on the final look, sit in it, measure out how much headroom you got, and then chop to the tip of your hair. I think the middle pic looks like the best proportions- I won't go off of numbers So, if that's the body you want, only channel it in accordance with that chop.
I have a chopped 2" 31 Model A coupe, no channel though. It's enough of a chop for me, and I've been fighting as to whether or not I should channel it. But that's my dilema. (I'm thinking now of not channelling it.) I don't think that Tall T coupes should be chopped. Just do the channel job. Being Tall is a part of the style of a T coupe. Just my humble opinion...
I think the 8" chop looks cool as can be, but what will that do to ingress/egress? Won't it be awful awkward?
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