I don't like the look of a chopped shoe...

Yep.

 

I really don't think top chopping is a "trend". It's been around for a loooong time and will be happening for many, many more years to come.

I also agree with Revhead.

Malcolm

 

not that my thoughts matter, but the first sectioned car that I really liked was the '55 ford (sorry not quite a shoebox) done by Blue Collar Customs in Sacto. Looked awesome, then they overly chopped it and it looks like someone sat on it. But the work on the car itself is killer.

 

Chopped 49-51 coupes look almost as bad as chopped Model A coupes.

 

How about this theres a lot of work in it but.......not really my style

 

I think that sectioned shoeboxes probably appealed to people back then more than now because it made such a dramatic difference in the appearance of the car, and made them look more "modern". Unfortunately, all the new cars of today have that same look, narrow (sectioned) body and a lot of glass. In a parking lot today, that car could almost get lost in the crowd to an untrained eye. To me, it looks like it could be the next new Ford.
When I was a kid, I lusted over a 53 Studebaker, it was just so sleek over every other car back then, sort of factory sectioned, now I own one, and it just doesn't really do it for me anymore. Now I want my cars to look old, not modern, and my Stude sort of reminds me of some 70's European car.

 

What about Miss Vicky! I don't have any pics, but Rikster might. Section looks good on it..

 

It isn't a radical custom without being chopped.
The statement that it is a current trend is very naive.
Ford and Merc shoeboxes have been chopped continuously since 1949.
Sectioned with no chop is double UGLY!

 

Trend at the moment!!! Where have you been hiding? Chops have been part of rods and customs for a lot longer than you've been into cars. Yes I looked at you profile, your involvement with cars appears to have started in 69. Are all chops pleasing? NO! But there have certainly been more cars chopped than sectioned. In my opinion and that of many others a cars proportions should be divided into thirds. The body to be 2/3 and the top 1/3

 

Can't find too much fault with this. Looks perfect to me...

 

Thanks Moonglow2 for posting pics of that shoebox. Had never seen it until now. Good grief that thing is clean... thanks again.

 

A well proportioned chop and section can indeed look cool on a shoebox. It takes a s-load of work and skills.

 

i certainly can't think of a better one off the top of my head. VERY nice car.

 

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Damn, now that's a funny bitch slap!

 

Didn't Sam Foose pull off a chop & section on one ???? .....and Weesner's car gives me a thick one...........

 

Yeah, that Sam Foose shoebox is Killer! There are pics of it floating around here somewhere....

...and Weesner's car, oh yeah!

 

ha ha depends how far back one goes..but I remember when a mate actually UNCHOPPED a 34 and jake was in deep shit for actually daring to chop a coupe...Chops as unionville huant knows them have only been around in the last 10 years with the last 4 years it's become feaverish where everyone is saying " Chop it" ....as the title says..' i don't like chopped shoes' ... to me the body shape is all wrong and hey...keep the comments comming

 

im a Chevrolet kinda guy but there are a few Shoeboxes i would mind having....

 

probably the biggest influence towards me liking this car was this picture . dank voor dat Rikster!!

 

Never chop a coupe.....
Chop a 2-door sedan

Roof on coupe is too short

 

You should just stick to amc pacers ?

 

Anyone who thinks unchoped sheboxes suck should open up a 1959 Custom Cars annual and look at that ground scraper inching through the car show or,Steve Anglins coupe from the Classic and Custom Magazine days.Steves car was built by Charlie Brewer.The sherbet Green thing at the top of the page is a sedan not a coupe which is why it looks well proportioned.Nads,The Hines Bat was not sectioned,I think the trunk was just lowered(sectioned)

 

Hery Katfish,go to a thread I started called "My Favorite Shoebox"

 

Sectioned Shoeboxes suck!

 

I find it hard to believe that people here do not think this is a nice looking well proportioned car.

 

I don't know when this one was built, but you have to remember that many were sectioned when they were new or nearly new cars. so back in the day they were modern and swoopy. they couldn't even have dreamed up the style of cars we have now. it would have made thier brains explode if they did.

 

I (personally) have sen so many damn shoeboxes, that if I died tomorrow, I could have only seen half of them, and still say that I saw too many.

They are the 5.0 mustang/Camaro of the Custom world.

 

This is the sexiest sectioned box i have ever seen

Vally Customs did awesome work!!

 

Honestly.. I like unmolested shoeboxes, ..the only thing id do to it..would be...alter its wheel base ..like the one groucho had... (course i wont do it in this lifetime..but i can dream)