Im tryin to decide if i should chop it 3" or leave it alone It being a 51 chevy 1/2 ton 5 window pickup. if i do id like to keep the wing windows,visor and driprails.I also would like to drop the center rear window down so it will match the side widows. Should i do it and is it doable?I already built a new ch***is nosed it and suicided the doors so the welding is no problem but the cuting is. I know about measureing the front post verticaly and bracing everything but it looks like i will have 5 pieces to weld back together.Seams like alot.any thing else im missin?
I would chop it, those trucks look sooo much better lower. BUT I don't know what you'd do about the side windows?? I have a similar delemma with my 51 sedan, chop it or not?? I figure I'll get mine runnin first then chop it next winter or somethin.
Chop it ,if you have never done one I applaud you.Just remember the more you take out the harder it is to get everthing to line back up.I always start out conservetive and take off more a half inch at a time until I get the evil look.Good luck...
Chop it ,if you have never done one I applaud you.Just remember the more you take out the harder it is to get everthing to line back up.I always start out conservetive and take off more a half inch at a time until I get the evil look.Good luck...
nuth'ins cooler than one these babies chopped, but it ain't no picnic either. I chopped a '53 F100 about 20 years ago, looked really cool, but I decided I f**ked up and ended up putting it back to stock. The doors fit better then they did from the factory when I got finished. I still had alot of fun and learned alot too, maybe that's why I haven't tried it since?! Good luck on whatever you decide, man. slacker
oh yeah, chop it... my buddy chopped his 3" and sectioned it 4", looks damn good i think. its on the stock frame in the pic, hes got a full hand made frame with C4 vette suspension which puts the running boards 4" from the ground... chop it.
lose the visor and chop it MILDLY, i think if you ditch the visor and makeit s**** the ground that it looks fine unchoped. but they do look great with a hair cut. the quarter windows? sink them down into the body some one has pix of how this is done im sure
I think if you do chop it, you lower it down, trim the fenders down and widen the hood and grill.. Gotta do the package or it doesnt quite look right. "right" is relative though! But, dont go wild on any of it or you p*** "Wicked" and can get overdone in a heart beat!
I would definately leave the 5 window alone. It would be a different story with a regular cab, bu the 5 windows are already soo cool as they are.
hmm lol nevermind i guess that truck aint gona get a whole hell of alot lower lol, so just ditch the visor
Why does everyone like the 5 windows so much? They would look so much better if all the windows in the back were the same height. BTW NO CHOP.
I am thinking of buying a 52 and I have looked at a lot of pictures. I think they look best with a mild chop and a lot of lowering.
ALL things are better chopped... Section the cab and pie-cut the hood so the cab and bed flow better.
Cut it up. Not just the top but section, smooth, widen, drop, round, channel and when thats done bag it. Not too much, not too little, just enough will be fine.
Anything's doable, and choppin' that truck has gotta be one of the easier things in life to do...Having said that - I've been looking at these trucks a lot lately (want one for my new daily driver), and decided that I wouldn't chop it, because it'd lose the "innocence" that attracted me to it in the first place. Does that make any sense? I'm shootin' for a stance about like yours, and leaving the tall top just visually lowers it even more...But like I said, that's for a daily driver that I don't want to stand out that much anyway. If I were going to really hot rod it - well...I'd need fresh blades for the sawzall............
A photochop I did some time ago. Imagine the frame is Z'ed, the frontend and bed are raised up. The hood is sectioned to match up with the cab. If the frame is Z'ed (not the cab channeled over it), there should be some room left to sit in it...
Leave it as it is height-wise, mix up a batch of UV resistant industrial gray primer and toss in a **** load of micro-flake (just did this on my son's trike and it's *****en). Set it on some Astros w/ skinny whites and leave the visor. Mexicali cool.
I think the proportions go bad if you just chop the top...the cab from the beltline up is narrower than the doors, so if the the truck is chopped but not channelled it ends up looking like a squashed snowman. I guess I'm partial though, this truck is in my family...
Well the trucks already low.Its baged and the frame frome the cab back is 2x4 tubing that is z'd.I had to c notch the crossmember under the cab for driveshaft clearance. the front is mustang 2(witch by the way ****s!) w/bags.Its also my daily driver so i gota find somtin else to drive while i chop it (i decided to chop 3"). ill be startin in a few days Ill post some picks along the way
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