Just finshed chopping the top on my 1957 Buick,getting to paint thinking of pearl with blue under side chrome. Any good colors that look good on a big car?
What about some pics!!!!! How can we help you if we carnt see the car to get inspired..... Who chopped it ? how much ? and what are you doing about a front screen? Are you getting a kustom screen made and if so who were and how much??? We need all this info because well just because.............. I love BUICKS.........
Yeah Man- Id like to see some info on this chop myself.....I have a 57 too! Welcome to the HAMB- there are several 57 Buick folks around......
chopped top 2 3/4" windshield sunk also rear windows the rear wrap arounds require to much work ----- did work myself when I learn how to send pictures on this site will post
Pics didnt work keep trying it will happen . heres a pic of mine. I would paint a pastel colour looks more old school i think.....
Buick57 and Twochops - your cars are spot on perfect. I'm starting to get real bored with my '48 Caddy convert and really REALLY like the '57 Buicks. Your cars are giving me palpitations. I think I have found my next ride. Let me say it again, your cars are perfect!!!
Needs WWW, and dropped a few inches... leave the hubcaps I think that a turqoise, with a lighter turquoise on top, with some subtle and thing scallops, done up in the colors transposed with the tips fogged in with the hubcap center color (it looks like an red/orange), no pinstripe outlining. If you look past the Miami Dolphins it kinda looks like what might have been done as the Watson style was just starting up.
4t64rd, that PS looks phenomenal. And I think a champagne color and dark brown would look nice and classy on that car, and be very different.
I havent even had a chance to think about color, I am still getting over that chop....amazing bodywork
Where are the tires on your car? I see some rubber bands on the rims... Lexan? Not acceptable.... Not a bad job, at least you used the front glass, but I have yet to see a '57 Buick chopped where there wasn't some glaring issues with it, at least in my eye... Like the vent window and windshield no longer being parallel, or at least it no longer looks that way, may just be the trim. Being as the '57 is my favorite car I tend to notice these things. I also think it messes up the proportions to the body. If you put a 4 door next to four door you can already see the 2 door is shorter to begin with. Not a car that needs chopping....
LEXAN REFERED TO IF I WERE TO DO ANOTHER ONE I MIGHT THINK OF USING LEXAN IN THE SMALL REAR WINDOWS----MY WINDOWS ARE 100% GLASS
Very good looking job Twochops.....Care to share the front and rear glass sinking process a little more with us buick guys? THANKS.
job well done, beautiful car and beautiful chop...truly killer! gives me inspiration to start working on my buick again! i'm with chopsrods a tech on sinking the glass would be awesome. _T
Twochops That is fucking awesome I lost it when I saw the pics of your car. I have a two door 66r I have just put on a rotisery for de rustification come to Australia for a holiday Ill put you up and pay you to do that to my car !!!!! And Zman Ill poast some pics of my four door with its www and 57 cadd caps tonight . I thourght the billets would get some rubbishing. It looks awesome with the oldskool stuff on it. And twochops when you get down under you can fit my 66 olds headlight rings 56 packard tail lights and my 56 olds dash . I have it all but its sittin on the shed floor. I olso have two motors to choose from big block Caddi or big block Buick . What do you think. If you can get your hands on the Zero engeniring book from japan there is an awesome colour on one of there bikes . It is a swad style copper brown bronze melalic that a 57 would fucking kool as.
IMBAWIO, the 57 Buick is the prettiest GM design from the 50's, inside and out. From the body style to the chrome to the dash, it's not a design that an amatuer can improve upon. It just doesn't need anything. If I had one, I'd lower it, paint it black and cream, and drive it, nothing else... That'll be $.02...
Fucking awesome chop job twochops. Come over to Australia and I will put you up and pay you to chop my 66r what a great holiday!! . I olso have a set of 56 olds headlight rings and 56 packard rear lenses too. Oh and also my 56 olds dash needs a rework to fit in the Buick... Are ya up for it???? About the colour for your car . I saw a book from japan called ZERO engineering thay do rad bikes . If you can get that book there is a bike done in a flat metalic gold base with brown over the top. When I saw that I lost it I just new that would be a KooL colour for a Buick... Check it out. Later.....
Most stories about chopping tops with wrap-around windows usually ends by saying just that the windows were sunk, but not how. Why? I think it's because it can't be done with pictures -- it takes words, a lot of words. Many have asked how I sunk the windows on my Buick. The advise is what I was told "Just cut a slot and sink them!" I wasn't happy with the answer, but it did work. Before continuing, let me state that this was done at home in a 2 car garage, alone without all the men and equipment that a body shop would have. Remember the question is how did I do it, there are probably much better and easier ways. Starting with the top, a 2x4 wood A-frame was made to hold up the top after it was chopped-- see pictures. 2 3/8" spacer put on the A-frame were removed after a 2 3/4" cut out of the windshield posts. Rear was cut out to drop top an even 2 3/8" -- see pictures.Because of the slant of the windshield posts, when the top is lowered in moves back approximately 1". (the top was never removed from the car, just lowered onto the wood supports.) I wanted the top to look stock when finished with factory style gasket and s/s. At the upper front edge of the top no changes are required. The front at the cowl is where the sinking begins. A slot must be cut at the gasket mounting flange ( inside the flange) from one windshield post to the other side. Start at approx. 1/2" to 1" slot -- kept cutting and trying to install glass until it can be installed without the glass touching any metal. I installed mine approx. 20 times before this happened. When windshield is installed it lowers the lower rear corners of the windshield into the dog leg. This is why on a Buick 2 3/4" is about the most you can cut out of the post it you are going to sink it. Things to remember -- what you cut will have to be resupported. Example -- the mounting hole bracket for interior moulding and top of dash, etc. A small piece of metal must be welded to the mounting flange at the windshield post. If you are after the factory look some area of the windshield gasket must be cut in two pieces so half of it is fastened to the glass on the inside and the other half on the outside. I installed 1/4" hard rubber pads and made a lot of brackets and supports before the windshield was installed. This is a very condensed information but as you start your work it will start to make sense. So before anyone complains about my answer -- remember the question was how did I sink the window -- not what is the best known way! I hope this helps. Enjoy the Ride -- twochops
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