Featured Hot Rods "No one chops 32 Fords anymore."

Is that true?

I was watching a very popular YouTube channel and they made that comment. My first thought was that the host was out of touch and only knows about restomod cars, but then I started thinking about it. Maybe it's mostly true and I am out of touch?

I know there are some still getting chopped, but has it become a largely a thing of the past, even with HAMBers? I am not talking Brookville cars, but genuine Deuces.

Have you chopped a 32 Ford in recent years or know of one? I've been away from this site except for the occasional peak.

 

My Dad’s current project is an unchopped 5-window highboy. It is an exceptionally nice body, and came with a set a chromed window moldings. It took some convincing to keep him from chopping it. He really wanted to.

 

There are different opinions on chopping '32 Fords. My rational was to correct the proportions of the roof height to the body. On my 3W 2" looked right and my '32 Roadster 3" and laying back the windshield. We chopped my 3W in a friends backyard after it was wrecked and it was the perfect time to correct the height. It may be that the cost to chop a top has gotten too expensive and unless the owner has the ability to do the job himself it won't be done.

 

Too Many Were Poorly Done And Unfinished......Wasted and A Crime

 

Pick a number, any number (within reason), just don't make it f#@k'd up looking with a radical tapered chop!!!

 

I recently p***ed on a chopped 4 door. If it had been a Tudor I'd have bought it in a heartbeat.
I think that a 3" chop is best. Improves the look without being too much of the overall focus.

 

Mine, while I own it will never be chopped just to piss everyone off.

 

I didn't chop my '32 5 window and had a gl*** chopped 3 window, My rational for not chopping is I'm 6'4" tall and 75 years old, as much as I like chopped cars I've had a couple of them in the past and comfort is more important to me. HRP

 

I used to be in the save what's left bunch, but there's not much logic in that anymore. Chop 'em if you want, but as HRP said, keep in mind the comfort issue. Not much fun trying to fold yourself into a severely chopped car and then struggle to see traffic lights.

 

I chopped both of mine. I like them unchopped, but a chopped hot rod has a more sinister look. I am currently working on a 1934 ford 3w, which I will also chop. It will sit nicely beside my chopped 33 ford 3w.

 

We did a mild chop on my 5w

 

Before 35 ish yrs old & Talking about
A's & 32s
Chop & channel , 20 year later No ,
33 up seems more room ,

 

I think the show was making the point, or trying to, that they are too valuable to cut up now. That and maybe that they are just not popular anymore? IDK. If I had one I'd want to chop it I think.

 

That car is perfect.

 

There was a time when chopped 3W's were the end all deuce for me, until I rode in my pals' car, this was not long after having a cervical fusion, nowadays uncut works for me.
Looks good from the back side of the camera!

 

Look at mine in my avatar. Not chopped.
Built about 1962-65

 

My chopped gl*** 3 window, It was cool at the time but I was also in my 30's.

 

So true....what we think is cool in our '30's isn't so cool when we're in our '60's and '70's!

 

I think it has to do more with the value of the body. I know if I had one I'd want a 3" chop just for the looks and dimensions BUT I would wrestle with the idea of cutting one up... but I'd still chop it....

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Why cut a original steel 3 window to make it look exactly like a gl*** 3 window? HRP

 

Don't trust people who begin claims with blanket statements like "Everybody" or "Nobody".

 

Because the chopped steel body was around long before the gl*** body, I'd say it's safe to ***ume the gl*** body is a copy of the chopped steel body, not the other way around

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Or “I heard”

 

Why cut a original steel 3 window to make it look exactly like a gl*** 3 window? HRP One of my club members had a chopped 5 window that had a mold pulled off of it he took some kidding that his car looked like all the gl*** cars

 

I am defiantly not a restorer but have no desire to chop or fill anything on my 32

 

Some would ask, "Does the hot rod world need another chopped Deuce?".

 

@NealinCA nailed it. That chop is what I would call perfect.

 

'32 Fords were chopped long before the gl*** copies became available. The fibergl*** copies are an affordable visual option for those who want an early appearing hot rod. Chopped original '32 Ford bodies don't look like fibergl*** but the opposite is true. Anyone who thinks an original chopped Ford looks like fibergl*** is trying to justify owning a gl*** copy.

 

I'd guess more coupes, both 5w & 3w, are now chopped than remain uncut.
I like them both ways. But I probably wouldn't chop one today.