Un-chop a '32 Ford Tudor

THIS IS NOT MY CAR/BUILD

I found this online and thought it was interesting...

http://www.mccainautomotive.com/1932FordTudor.htm

 

Thanks. My guess there will be many of these in the future.

 

I would like to think so. There are some cars I have to see chopped. The '32 is not one of them. The Tudor or truck looks okay with a mild chop but nothing big. I just can't stand to see say a '31 A with a 6" chop and 3" channel with a Center-bolt SBC, rust, skulls, and barbed wire. Hopefully these cars will be changed.

 

Everyone has a opinion.

 

That is true. I am just telling mine. I like traditional hot rods as do most on this message board. I guess the one good thing about rat rods is that it gets the younger generation into it. I just hope someday they can appreciate fabrication such as this. At my high school not one kid knows what a welder or vice grips are

 

As far back as I can remember I have wanted a chopped and channeled car. It is hard to get in and out of driving it can be uncomfortable but the hole time I have a smile on my face. I asked my wife do you want to leave your car unchopped? She looked at me an asked what do you think so 3 inches coming out of the top. I guess I am crazy like that!!

If we keep using that fn r word it will not go away!

 

WOW! Good thing I saved the parts when I chopped mine 3.5 inchs. Them 32 guys are nuts. I bet they'd give 20/30 bucks for the parts.

 

Wow. What an incredible amount of work. You'd think he'd just find a Tudor that wasn't chopped or one that was chopped the right amount for him. I'm sure someone out there would've liked it chopped as it is. My Tudor isn't chopped and personnaly that's just how I like em. But I can appreciate the amount of talent it takes to chop one.

 

Besides personal taste it's a matter of perspective. For example a '32 5w looks excellent with a 2" chop if your still going to keep the fenders. The car remains comfortable to sit in. Without the fenders a 2" chop isn't enough, instead it takes 3"-4" to make a pleasing modified look. Anything beyond 4" regardless of fenders your required to become a contortionist just to get in and out not to mention the chiropractor bills after anything over a 2 hour ride.

Frank

 

I've seen one car un-chopped, but it was really more like a roof grafted on to fix a (seriously) poorly done chop. The dude who bodged it up sold the car cheap enough to make it worth fixing.

This one, I dunno. Maybe the pics don't tell the whole story but it didn't look that bad.

 

Man, that's cool... Lotsa work, but looks great!

 

I still have all of the pieces from when I chopped my '32 Vicky 5 inches.

I will hopefully sell them in 30 years for $1,000,000.

 

I knew it would happen someday! In a time like we are in now wher hard chops are the trend, I knew someday Unchopping them would happen. I personally don't think 3 1/2" on a sedan is too hard, but anything past 4" in my opinion on a 30's car is too much. The 6" chops I have seen on "A"s and 32's are ridiculous in my own opinion. Unless its going to Bonneville, don't chop it that hard.

 

Great information. Sedans are worth saving. The Kennedy Boys have unchopped several cars in their shop. I still have the pieces from my 3 window done in 1985...just in case I find another one.

 

Agreed...

I don't think this particular car looked bad with that amount of chop, but there are alot of recent builds out there that I think the lid is too low to look good.

 

I kept the 2" sections out of my 3W as great wall hangers. I've been asked why I kept them, it should be obvious, so in 20 years I can unchop it. Ha ha

 

seems like brookeville would start selling the pieces to unchop.

 

I have to admit that sometimes I have thought about unchopping my 34 3 window. With a 4 inch chop, a stock seat, and me at 6 feet tall, I just fit in it.

 

Some day if I win the lottery I'm going to unchop a car and add 2 inches over stock just to screw with people. Second thought if I had that kind of money nothing would be safe, I'd chop everything.

 

I ,with my keen sense of bidness ,see a" service opportunity" here......I am off to the labratory now to develop my new......"UN HOTROD"kit....

It will cover not only those unsightly chopped tops- but also all those other useless mods like better brakes and drivetrains,so they can be easily converted back to the stone age for the newly formed cult of "TradRestorers"[TM] I see coming.......

 

the roof laying on the dash ****s

 

I've owned a few chopped cars over the years,,I finally figured out that at 6'4" I need head room,,so the next chopped cars we a '32 roadster with no top and a 39 Ford convertible.

I've come to the conclusion that I appreciate the additional head room found in the un-chopped cars but there is no question that a chopped car definitely looks cool. HRP

 

I do remember seeing a restored stock 32 5W that the owner claimed he unchopped as it was "some old hot rod" when he got it.

Yeah, I cringed.

 

I'm only 5'8" but it didn't p*** my "milk crate test" sitting in the garage when I got it. I put it back to the stock height. That was 33 years ago now. I'm so out of step with the fads.

 

I'd expect to see more of that type of work as guys start figuring out that hard chopped cars aren't too comfortable.
Sometimes because guys decide that they have to "take all they can" out on a chop and then without doing the "gangsta lean" when they drive it. That might work for the pro fairground cars that get pulled out of the garage, onto the trailer, off the trailer and out into the fairground to a power parking spot. Then it takes three minutes to unfold out of the car and another two minutes to shake out the cramps from being in the car a grand total of ten minutes and driving a whole quarter of a mile.
Just watch those RR guys with their hard chops, deep channels and no roof so their whole head can stick out through the roof the next time you go to an event. In the next few years you will see a number of those bodies getting the roofs raised back up to a height where the owner (probably new) can put a roof on the car and actually drive it in some degree of comfort.

One of my buddies just drug home a 52 Ford tudor sedan that along with having one of the worse butcher jobs on a roof or panel I have ever seen is chopped so hard that a guy would have to put seats so low in it that he will have to look through rather than over the steering wheel to drive it. He thinks it will look great but to me it looks like O'l Crisco sat on it at sometime or another.

 

Thanks for the link. I like the sedans chopped about 2 1/2 inches. The 4 & 5 inch ones you see look racy but I can't see out of them.