Sectioned my 1949 Dodge and now a chop

nice work!

 

Excellent metal work, I agree dont know how you did it without an autodarkening helmet.
Take a look at the pics frompost 60, looks like youll need to move the rearend back to center the wheel in the fender, might modify the inner fender in post 78 to give plenty of clearance now, that wya you dont run into issues getting as low as you want or running the wheels you want.
cant wait to see progress on this.

 

I got the other fender welded, took some time trying to keep the line straight. Mounted the fenders and hood, need to do something with the hood, hinges don't lift much anymore. Now I can fab the radiator support, and do some metal work on the grill. I like the looks of the front with the sectioning. Inyjps, I understand where it looks like the rear tire is forward, but thats stock and how Mopar did it. I believe someone else doing an earlier Plymouth here changed the rearend mounts to center it.

 

Looks swell mister.

 

Man I have to hand it to you, Thats a lot of cutting and welding. Good work.

 

I applaud your massive balls, this is gonna be striking.

 

Post 93, dont know what youre using for a grille, bringing the hood front down even with the fenders will give you a nice clean line to do a custom grille. If your original is in good shape its not a concern.

This is a great build, definately subscribed.

 

Looking good. Keep up the great work!

 

Even without a grille the front end looks much better, better proportioned ,nice work all around and I applaud you for the subtle section job, most of them seem to be overdone to make a statement as opposed to making the car look better !

 

Thanks for the complements. I am planning on doing something to the grill, adding a lower bar to bring the bottom of the fenders together with the bumper, frenching the headlights, making the hood line up with the fenders, and adding steel radius' to the inside of the grill opening.

 

Looks great! Stay on track so you can bring this to the 4th of July show at my house. Now get going............

 

Well I got more sheetmetal to weld now, I just cut out some of the trunk, and C notched the frame. Planning on welding fish plates on the notch, and next step is setting the ride height and welding the 4 link.

 

looking great! i have a 49 myself, will be keeping an eye on this one!

 

very nice work. I have a 49 Plymouth and if you look at the side view of these particular years, you will notice that the fenders tend to run slightly uphill from the door to the headlight. One way to cure this is to cut the fender at the top by the door and continue the cut into the wheel opening. you can then drop your core support mount (I did 3 inches on mine) and then let the upper part of the fender slide into the lower part of the fender (pie cut). Cut off the extra metal and weld the seam. The hood will follow the fender down, (you might have to trim the rear hood line) and you can be rid of the uphill look of the fenders. NOt the best explanation, but hopefully you can get the idea. Once again, awesome build.

 

I get what your saying, do you have a side view pic of your car?

 

two best ones I have, not perfect side views, but will give you the idea

 

I can tell it brought the height down. I don't think I can do that, the sectioning already brought the fender height down. I still have the height in the hood, found a 51 Coronet, nice hood and grill, might be nice to try that on the Dodge, don't know how much cut to fit.

Hope to set the ride height for the rear links tommorow, and looks like I might have to make more room in the wheelwell now so it will go real low.

 

I am so loving this build. Keep it up.

 

Started on the links, 2" square thick wall tubing for the bottom links, I had some bushings and DOM that I cut and welded on. Other end will be an adjustable bushing. I had the brackets from Ruff Stuff from a different project. Marked the axle and got the ride height set, and realized I probably didn't need to do the notch! At ride height I have 10" of travel, and if I lowered the car the tires would hit the wheel well at 7" of drop, 3" below the notch, but I still will add a bumpstop under it. A little work on the wheel wells and it would go further.

 

great thread, great work! looks awesome!

 

Had to take a break on the 4 link, waiting for parts in the mail. Made a new stump for shaping, started on a patch panel for the trunk, theres a license plate recess I want to get rid of. Still have to planish it. Its a low crown compound curve that would have been real easy with an English wheel.

 

Nothing like the smell of burning mouse piss! After I ground off the old leaf spring brackets and spot welded the link brackets the stench filled the shop Mice got into the boxed frame again, hope when I get the frame sandblasted and painted it will be the last of them. I got adjustable links and square bungs to fit in the 2" X 2" thick wall square tubing I used for the lower links. So far everything lined up, but it wasn't necessary to do the C notch, I have 9" of travell at ride height, and can drop 6" and I will hit the wheelwell. Oh well. Ignore the sagging door and crooked rocker, they're just propped there for now for visual effect .

 

Back to sheetmetal work, finished welding the cuts on the door. Had to open it up to weld the inner support. Also welded on new rocker on the drivers side. Had to fix the door and rocker so I can get the door lined up, it was sagging, can't weld the top of the door on till its right. Hoping for some snow to melt so I can test out the new pressure sandblaster I built.

 

Awesome work! It's coming together pretty nice.

 

I like it........a lot. Keep up the great work!

 

Have to agree with Rock on this one, I like it too.

 

What a pain trying to get a door aligned! The I realized when I sectioned the door, the lower hinge was off a bit, so I had to cut the door again. Got it all line up, good reveals, and door doesn't sag anymore! Then I was able to cut and weld on the top of the door window frame, slowly getting there.

 

Very impessive job.

 

Cool!! looking good always like to see those Mopars being built.Thanks for sharing your work.

 

Hi,
This is Marty @ Marty's Chop Shop I seen your car and it looks good I just finished chopping one in my shop and you can view the chop on my web site www.martyschopshop.com if you have any ?'s feel free to contact me @ martys2@frontiernet.net
Good Luck with your project
Marty