Chopping a 1950 Nash Ambassador (Unibody)

I like big ****s and I cannot lie!!!!!!

 

Stock, these cars are not for everyone - you either love them or spend countless hours thinking about how you would alter it. While I'm not a huge fan (hell I hate it) look of the front wheel openings as they are, I dig the rest of the car. It's got great flow other than those stupid wheel wells. I'd say leave well enough alone or move on to another car. But that picture of the chopped blue one looks ***y as hell. Mad skills to pull that off right there.

Hey, you want to shave your Nash and sell me your hood ornament on the cheap?

 

If I wanted to cut that top, I'd do some reading on how Chevy Fleetlines are cut. The trunklid is going to need more work than the roof will. I read about a chop on the HAMB of a Chevy Fleetline where the trunk was moved forward between the rear fenders, that seemed like the way to do it.

I also agree that the most height needs to come out of the rear. If you take 3 or 4 all the way around, it's going to have a huge hump in the back. More like 2 in the front and 4 in the rear.

If it is to retain it's original unibody structure, I'd put in some heavy duty subframe connectors and I'd brace it up really good before the first cut is made.

 

Like I said before, there is NO other car for me, and I am chopping THIS ONE. One-two" in front, 4-5" in the rear. It's all on paper or my head...

Trying to get my buddies frame rack, which is under another friend of his dormant project.

I like the idea of lowering the trunk, which I have read about. Any pics or links?

 

Wish I could help you with a photoshop of
your Nash but every time I try to do it,
it comes out a station wagon----sorry

 

Now the wagon thing looks slick! Chop THAT top and see where it takes you.

Regardless, this thing needs a severe chop to be sleek. I'm thinking chopped Hudson look, but the key is going to be the decklid.

 

Mild chop and lowering...

 

I just saw the blue car... so you want to lower it like that... so it takes the "seam" down and has no wheel wells...

what are your thoughts on the boot then? you want to keep that back large, or take it down like I did in the other pic?

 

That looks quite nice...

http://digimods.co.uk/tutorials/tutorials.htm That may help you with the lowering... it helped me.

 

What happens if you section 4 to 6 inches out of the middle of the car? To me the roof on these looks fine, the sides just look like an old man's trousers pulled way up high water.

 

To chop that vehicle you'll really have to do some good engineering.<O></O>
Given that it's an early unitized constructed vehicle, and has no conventional frame under it, you'll wanna sleeve and weld completely all joints/cuts. Any where you don't, you'll have a box with no bottom-can you spell trapazoid?<O></O>

Yup. TrapEzoid

 

Sectioned ???

 

The car above looks like a 2 door he**** with a rolled rear.

 

O.K. how about chopped and sectioned?

 

I had a go with the blue one and did something between them all....

 

It does look better sectioned with the chop - a lot of work but it would really turn heads when it was done. But the vanity plate would have to read "ELECTROLUX" ... yeah I know it's too many letters.

 

Amazing... Huge, too!

 

And loosing my Hump? Be cool as a convertible, tho...

I'll past some more tomorrow, after converting.

 

Tail fins, like the '51 Nash will kill a lot of the Fat *** look.

 

Very quick and rough, I moved the roof and trunk as a unit,
forward and down. This maintains the flow of the roof.

 

Unkl Ian- you are on the right track there. I saw a magazine article on chopping a 48-49 fastback Cad and that's how they did it. I would not change the car too much and loose it's "Nashiness".

They just seem to float!

 

Yes, a friend of mine did a '39 Ford Humpback that way,
the profile of the roof and truck lid stayed the same,
just slid forward and down. Looked factory.


Any other way almost guarantees a kink or flat spot somewhere.

 

Gettin' off topic here but that has a Pacer look. I had always wondered what a photo shopped Pacer would look like. Here's an AMC that was a pretty tough ride.

 

OK, try this.....remove the decklid and all the sheetmetal north of the stainless beltline trim, find an early VW 23 window bus, chop it a bunch and graft the two together. You'll want to maintain the Nash windshield and ditch, probably, two sets of windows from each side of the bus body, leave the nifty sliding ragtop.
EASY as pie. Imagine owning the only 15 window, Amb***ador open air cruise vessel.....

 

I have an inkling that you´re not being entirely serious.

 

i would leave it un-chopped.....i have a 50 nash.....just starting to mini-tub it......just a tub......thinking about painting it Mary K pink

 

I hope not!

 

I love the looks of the stock appearing 2 dr wagon. I even like the looks of the front fenders being cut. The Nash's are are cool car. I wonder how the seats feel when using as a bed. I never had a chance to find out in the couple of Nash's I had over the years.

 

I think skirts on the rear....

 

Have had my fill of wagons, although the "Nomash" is cool.

I have a '57 Rambler V8 Cross Country Custom V8 for sale currently. Gee... I should post it here. I was looking for a rear window when I started a relationship with an eye doctor in Texas, and next thing I knew I was the owner of the very straight and complete Brougham.

**** Ugly grows on you. As I plan on living in this car (well, kidding, the bed doesn't really work in Broughams because of the canted rear bucket seats and center arm rest) I do not want a Bonneville chop or channel job.

I figured the truck and roof need to stay together, just slop more into the rear bumper. I think the truck lid is going to need shaping on the sides, as will the roof, which is narrower than the fenders as it comes down.

Here is my before and after on the blue one: