Street Rodder Magazine Dick Dean Article

Does anyone know where I can find an article published by Street Rodder Magazine where Mr. Dick Dean shows how to chop a top of a 1950 Mercury? I have a picture of the first page of the article...It might have been published about 1989/1990...

 

think cal tanaka's black flamed 33/34 coupe and bill vintner (sp) orange coupe are on the cover.....i have it somewhere... brandon

 

Great...Im trying to have that before I chop my top...

 

I've probably got it stashed somewhere but it would take a year to find it.

If you can find out which issue it is in. Street Rodder may have a copy in their back issues stash that you can buy.

The Tex Smith book How to chop Tops http://www.amazon.com/How-Chop-Tops...bs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228151727&sr=8-2

has a similar article By Andy Southard of a Merc being chopped by Butch Hurley and Rod Powell. That is well detailed.

 

Nice, man!!! I gonna take a look on those books too!!!

 

this is how I am doing the chop and fab work, on
¨Mexican Merc 50¨ here on the HAMB,
hope this helps some.

Also you should check out Ethers site on the HAMB here.
If you have any particular questions just PM me
Regards
oz40 (Tom)

 

Yeah! I just saw yor stuff in the Mexican Merc...Very nice job my friend. Congratulations on that!!!!

 

Hey,

The June of '89 is the issue you're lookin' for!

Swankey Devils C.C.
"Meanwhile, back aboard The Tainted Pork"

 

I think Thenightprowlers.com is having a sale on "how to chop a merc" videos, at least the last time I visited their site. They are Tommy Steadman's videos, very high quality (information wise).

 

Bumping up this old thread to see if anyone has this article.
I'm in the process of chopping a '51 Merc for a customer using the Dick Dean chopped Lee Lucero Merc as inspiration. There is one part of the chop in particular that I would like to see how Dick approached it. Thanks.

 

Southend Kustom now = Keith Dean. The way Keith lays roofs is beyond beauty. You should talk to him. P.S. Tell your customer to keep the 51 rear window.

 

Cool I'll shoot him a pm. Thanks
Don't worry we already have the profile done and tacked together with the '51 rear window

 

Lee's Merc... Close up of the rear window

 

Thanks for the pics Rik.
I wish you had pics of the lower corner of the window under the trim.
I'm figuring out the best way to transition the C-pillar to the window frame. With the window leaned forward the frame is narrower then the C-pillars and if I try to lean the pillars in it will make a valley behind the belt line trim.
Dick makes it look like it lines up perfectly.
Was hoping to get a look at that article before working on the car tomorrow, but I guess I'll just have to come up with something on my own.

 

Paul Kelly made these scans... great article
Hope this will help you...

Larger scans can be found on my site HERE

 

I mean just look at placement of that rear window !!!!!!! It is perfect along with the flow.Sultan of Chop was the TRUTH !!!!

 

Awesome chop.Wasn't this Lee's car suppose to go up for sale?

 

It was sold and now is in Sweden I believe.

 

OK!Thanks for the info.

 

Cool scans Rikster! I like Dicks work so well I read that article about once a year and I dont even OWN a merc!

 

Hey guys, just a little tip from a Dean on cutting a top. When your done measuring everything, stand back and look at it! It was my dads eye that made his cuts so nice.

 

Your Dad was a neat guy ! Meet him at Pas Robles back in the 87 when he had that channeled and chop ford shoebox and I had my Merc ! We compaired chops mine was lower !

 

Thanks to Rik and the guys who e-mailed the article to me.

The article didn't talk about what info I was looking for, but I figured it out from the pics.

 

I have done two Mercs following those articles by Dick Dean. I am a true fan of his work.

 

hay Keith, love to come out one day and lay one down with you, like old times I should have asked your dad for more info over the years but hay whats a young kid know

 

Please take many photos of your chop... and post them here... so others can learn from it as well.

 

I have some photos of what I have done so far, only cell phone pics though.
I will post up pics after I OK it with the owner of the car and my boss.

 

Keith your dad did 32 delivery conversion on a tudor that I owned for a while up here in mn that was so nice it was in bare metal the workmanship on the inside and the outside I just cleared it it went back out there to Ray Lark dont know what everbecame of it but man it was nice ,stoped in pa,s place years ago when I was out there you were in the office and I ran into your dad at Chuck Lombardos that day your dad and Bill Hines were aways very nice to talk too great guys

 

Great to see this thread going on!...And very happy having more pictures of Lee's Merc!

 

It is written in this page of the article that Dick Dean was explaining to the camera how to use Plasma Cuter and the tapes would be available at Dean's Automotive...Does any one has a copy of those tapes?