Projects A tale of 3 chops and the revival of the 41 to 48 fords

I'm in agreement with that. Otherwise good lines

 

There have been some successful carson top jobs done on these Tudors.

 

One of my all time favorite I've seen of the 1941-42 1946-48 Ford Customs. This car is owned by an old time customer of mine.

The owner said it has longer suicide doors made from 6 different doors that Miguel 'Magoozi" helped find the parts. There are so many custom features that I believe the owner that he and others took around 5000 man hours labor to build. It probably took another 5000 hours to think all the custom features through.

 

My buddy's 46 3 window won the custom d'elegence at sacramento autorama 2 years ago, notice the barris crest of aproval that Geogre gave him.

 

I realize this is an old thread but here is a chop we did on a 47 long door.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/tech-week-chopping-a-1947-ford-sedan-coupe.568646/

and
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1947-ford-sedan-coupe-chop-and-build.579871/

 

Thanks for posting that, quite a few of my friends have been buying these coupes lately, I am shure the information will be helpful for them, and no , the thread is not done, we are going to start on the third chop soon, it's a 46 mercury long door coupe thats flathead powered and will have a hard chop

 

There's been a '46 short door advertised locally lately. The price keeps dropping too. It's killing me, no time/space/dough.

 

Ya, there is still quite a few of these coupe projects out there and for a fifth of what a 49 to 51 merc project costs and if your'e not running the stock drive train , you can resale the guts and get most you're money back.

 

Quit tryin' to talk me into it!

 

Sorry, I'am just a big fan of these fat ladies

 

Miguel, sorry we missed you at Santa Maria. I hope you were able to get your Coupe fixed!

 

Bumn I miss you guys, ya the advance on the distributor went out and had to tow the car home.

 

Tiajuana wedding

 

Putting this thread back to the top with a recent image of my '41. Fabian Valdez is doing the chop.

 

Really glad I found this thread.
Decision time to chop or not chop?? First photo is as it is today and the photoshopped chopped version is done by the moose to assist with the decision.

 

We are finishing up a unchopped 47 club coupe , I'll post some pictures

 

A few year's later and almost everything not visible has been (re)done..


Dave

 

Nice car and color

 

Just thought I would check in, I'm almost there.

 

Beautiful! Is there a build thread?

 

here's one I have rebuilt over a year for my neighbour ,lot's of body repair , mechanic, electricity,remodelling the interior and lot mordent to it...It had a really bad chop ,with lot's of crack plastic, ugly hardware everywhere...then he as made someone do the paint...

 

Thanks! I'll start a thread as soon as I get it home.

 

Hey Magoozi......I was down for El Mirage last weekend and saw Steve Ricketts chopped `49 that you did. I know it`s not a 41-8 Ford, but I really like the treatment. I know it was originally chopped in `55, and you guys kept it era perfect when you re-did it. Fantastic job!! P.S; Adam Rogers says Hi...

 

Starting to get the interior squared away.

 

I'm glad its back.

I'm building a pickup from the remains of a 41 Australian coupe ute.

Its pretty neat concidering i started with just a left front fender , a really bent hood and the front half of the ute body that is sedan based. Of that I got the cowl/screen area, two badly rusted doors and 2 bent center pillars. There was no floor or roof. I found it, in pieces. Its about 60% done now.

 

I have a short door 41 opera. Are they harder to chop then the long doors ? It's a rusty bucket got it back in 13 it came out of MN.

 

No, probably easier. Here's a pic of mine.

 

Thanks,ya we had to redo the chopp,the rear section of the roof and rear window area was a mess but I really enjoyed working on the project, My friend Steve is a great guy,I'll try to start a thread on it soon.

 

This is another grill that was popular in the day, though the thread is old I happy to see more of these getting built.