Holy Crap! I cut the roof off my damn car!

Glad to see the gal involved.

Maybe I should shove my old lady in the cold garage? But if I do and it pisses her off, I don't think I want her to have anything that could cut pieces of me off.

 

You ain't kiddin'! I think my first words were "What the **** have I done?!?" After a few deep breaths, i formulated a plan of attack, and I am remaining calm

HA! My garage's got heat, so she doesn't complain. Yeah you definately don't want mention anything questionable to her if she's got a cut-off wheel in hand!

 

Congrats! I look forward to it as well in a not to distant future!
http://public.fotki.com/RPW/1/51-lincoln-sport-se/
(I know its a Lincoln but some its the same body...)

 

looks good so far......keep the pics coming ive got a moredoor im going to chop this spring.............and it would be nice to see your pics

 

Oooooo.....a Phaeton!!!

 

tee hee hee

 

Sweet. Does she have a sister? Only kidding. HAVE FUN. Told my new girlfriend that if she needs me, to look in the garage or out at the range. She said COOL. Good for both of you. Slim.

 

I keep meticulous photo do***entation on all my cars. I have my O/T race car photographed from the day i put it on the trailer to bring it home 5 years ago to as recent as this past summer when she went 10.20 @ 127mph

I'll be sure to keep posting them. I got some more from today I'll add shortly.

 

Here are a few from today. I basically just eased out the A pillars by cutting slits (photo), then tacked them it. I kept an angle finder on the roof to make sure my rake was toward the back and not the front, and a level on the center of the roof. I leveled the car prior to this whole project, to make my life easier. So far the only problem i ran into was i took too much off the B pillers (stupid, stupid, stupid). No worries, I have all the metal i took off, so i can add it back just as easy. Live and learn I guess. On the last pictures I taped the door tops on to the body to get a feel for the flow. I think its just right. 3 1/2" on the A pillar, 4" on the C pillar. What do you guys think about the flow so far?

 

bump for the evening crowd

 

Looking good bro! Keep us posted. Love seeing another 4 door by the way.

 

I know your car quite well from the HAMB and envy the stance and the flow of it. I will definately turn to you for any questions. I don't know if this is anti-HAMB, but i am going to eliminate the rear vent windows, what do you think of that?[/quote]

Im with ya on the vent windows. If you keep the moredoors I would shed the vent window on the rear but Im partial to keeping them on the front. ETHER

 

Im with ya on the vent windows. If you keep the moredoors I would shed the vent window on the rear but Im partial to keeping them on the front. ETHER[/quote]

I am keeping the front vents. And yes, i am keeping it a more door. Just not that many left out there, ya know?

 

4 doors are cool. I say up your nose to the 4 door haters!

 

Looks like you have a great chop going. Keep taking your time and it will turn out great. From what you said you saved all the parts you cut out from the chop. Good idea!!! i saved all of mine but ended not using them but was able to help out another guy that bought a messed up project so he used them you never know when you will need them.

 

Hey coupes are great but i always say: "The FOUR, the merrier!"

Thanks for the words of inspiration! Yeah i aint throwing nothing out until the thing is rolling off the trailer at the paint shop!

 

UPDATE:

I spent today tacking in the C pillars and beginning to relocate the B pillars. I hope this is right! I spent a bunch of time stepping back and "looking" at the lines more than anything. I am going to do the other side tomorrrow, then i guess do the door tops. I haven't touched the rear window yet, but i guess there isn't a real "order" in which to do things at this point. Comments? Suggestions? I'm all ears!

 

anybody can build a car ...It takes a real man to cut one up....looks great...

 

thanks!:d

 

my wife wants to go out there with me but we cant leave the child inside that long. and we arent using all of our babysitting time just yet. Nice job finding your dream girl, and I love 4 door mercs! great choice man.

 

No babies yet for us....basically for that reason. We know when you have kids your car life together drastically changes.
I was always fascinated by the suicide door Merc, and i finally got one, so i'm living my dream. Woohoo!

 

Have seen the bumper sticker, WANTED good woman,must know how to cook ,weld,swap engines,do body work and paint! Wow dude it looks like you found her.Good luck on the chop ,sounds like you have a good hands on supervisor to make sure you don't hack anything.

 

Today i decided to tackle the door tops on the p***enger side. Funny how i thought this would be the easy part. It was actually a lot of work and tons of cuts (probably could have made fewer cuts had this not be my first time). It took me about 5 hours to get it all tacked in to place. I found that on the "lines" i had to finish grind the welds so i could verify the flow and uniformity. Here are a few new pics from today:

 

Way to go Mario...now my wife is *****ing at me cause you at least gave her goggles...i forgot to give her any....dumb *** mistake on my part...looks good. I plan on doing my first chop on my 30 sedan the first week of march

 

you making it look easy man. but hey, if you f-ck it up you can always blame it on your wife. lol JUST KIDDING looks great

 

Lookin' mighty fine, you's are working fast,making it look easy.

 

adding this thread to the list...nice work man, like someone mentioned above you're making it look easy! i'm about ready to tackle mine also....got the first time jitters i guess been going back n forth ever since i picked it up ..."okay i'm gonna do it, no wait ummmnn... yup fck it i'm gonna chop it!" keep them pics coming.

 

looks great, 4-door with suicide doors are cool, and if the doors dont f-up the lines, then who cares? my boss a a 4-door 48(?) chrysler or maybe plymouth, but it looks great and i wouldnt make it a 2-door. good luck

 

Damn BigTony...get that woman some eye protection! She sat with me in the ER as they dug out rusty slag out of my eye that faithful day, so ever since then we've really been **** about PPE (personal protective equipment).

Thanks for the compliments guys. To hear that I'm making it look easy really boosts my moral with this project.

I keep meticulous photo do***entation, so every day i work on it, i dump the camera on my pc and throw them up on this thread.

I generally work on the car sundays and mondays, as these are my days off. Thanks sooo much for the support!

 

Looks great !! When i did mine I took out (9 1/2" ) little radical !! But it was fun ! Keep up the good posts! Brings back memories !!!