I would love to see your 33/34 3 window ford coupe roof chops and how many inches you took out. Posts leaned or stock with a filler. Mild, moderate, business card, hard. Thx
A mild chop for clear vision and head room… Hello, Ever since I risked limb and life back in 1959 to get this film shot, it has been a difficult project to draw a favorite 1934 Ford Coupe “coming at you,” stance. It was one of those things where one was standing, taking staging area films and behind was a line up of the next row of race cars getting ready to do their thing. Some race cars took the whole dragstrip push from their follow up trucks, while others had enough speed in the small staging lane entrance to fire up. The approach is debatable as to which is/was better. The other one is a full, rolling down the dragstrip and turn around back to the starting line with the motor running, version with more space needed to fire up. The original "Sidewinder" from Joe Mailliard Speed Shop in the Westside of Long Beach. Jnaki So, which one is a better approach? At least the “coming at you” has less time firing up versus the long dragstrip push start and return run. But, it also leads to a long term, coming at you image project with tons of erasures to make it look as if the subject: A chopped, 1934 fenderless Ford Coupe is headed your/my way… YRMV A midnight Halloween full power run, down the Cherry Avenue Drags, darkness… (Yikes! ) is most appropriate...Ha!
Here's mine. I was told it was 5" F&R with a split when I got it, but I cannot stand split roof chops... Leaned the A pillars, removed the split & took another 7/8" out of the rear. 3blap.
Mine I've been working on, I started with a 34 Fordor roof and Tudor doors. I'm not sure how much it's chopped but my side window openings are 6and 3/4 inches at the back of opening
I haven’t got any measurements, but I have borrowed photos for inspiration… Let us know and we can unleash some roadster pictures as well.
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