Has anybody ever un-chopped a car?

Well?

 

I remember reading in R&C years back about a guy who put a few inches back in the roof of a chopped model a pickup...

 

Not me , but there sure are a lot of them out there that need it .

 

The best way to do it is with a doner roof. that way you have all the missing metal and most likely you can get the stock glass were you got the roof.

 

i seen an ad in the classifieds maybe a year ago where someone was selling the tin from a chop on an A coupe , that alone would stand to reason someone has done this before ..

 

A former roomie had a '34 Ford truck that had a hideous chop done on it! He wanted to un-chop it, but since it was a truck, it was far easier and cheaper to find another uncut cab. I never did see the finished product - he got transferred and took the project with him.

 

There is a copper color '51 Ford PU that is in the new Goodguy Gazette with the Pleasanton,CA coverage. Owner had a chopped top installed, after it was made into a convert. Also, had European style headlights removed from fenders and stock ones put in custom grill surround. More mods too.

 

I said one day this would happen,,lol ,,you need a parts car and new doors are easier than trying to fix the old

 

Not back up to stock height, but I have seen a donor roof grafted on to fix an unfinished, poorly-done chop. Previous owner tried to do the car himself, botched it, and gave up. Doors weren't cut, and the roof / posts were just tacked.

Guy I knew bought the car for almost nothing and had a body guy raise it from about a 5" + hack with mail-slot windows back up to a much nicer 2 1/2 or 3" cut.

 

I have the pieces to put about 4" back into a T coupe.

I bought them to RAISE a stock top a couple of inches.

JH

 

I un-convertibled my Merc, it was gonna be a look-a-like-im a dropp top.
Thankfully the dude saved all the trimmings in a COORS box. That said; I built a stock roofline outa chunks, then made numerous cuts/welds/fix's to get the same heap...

 

This thread should not even exist. Who would even want to unchop a car?!

 

to fix other peoples screw ups

 

yep

 

at work we unchopped a 46 ford because there was 6 inches on bondo in it.... then we re-rechopped it the right way.

 

In 1986 we unchopped the old Bushwacker AA/GS car. Del Rio went a little bit to far with the angle chop. You had to laydown in the car just to see the christmas tree. We still left about 1 1/2 of wedge. But that was a fiberglass car, it was easy. Used conduit glassed in to brace it!

 

I got 6 inches worth of Model A coupe metal if aybody is in the market...the car is gone bot the shit I chopped out is still in my garage...who knows, mabe raised rooflines are going to be the new craze!! IM JOKING!

 

Did you drink that six pack before writing that?

 

What, you didnt get the Im joking part or are you a fucking grammer nazi?

 

I don't see the big deal get another roof, and doors, screw trying to fix the original roof!

Unchopping one is easy, try "unbodydropping" a late model crewcab dully.

 

an angry drunk eh?

On the other quote of just get another roof, some of the cars that have been chopped its hard to find a donnor car for a roof, but for the work to make another one you are right it would be worth it even if you had to pay all the money to by another car/roof.

 

I'm gonna make millions after this lame skull rod shit is over by selling un-shop kits to fix OSR style shock rod abortions. (patent pending)





See!?!

 

This is a HOT ROD forum not a antique restorer sight. I never thought the day would come to see this question on the H.A.M.B . I gaged a little when I read this. What's next? How would a 32 Ford Highboy look with tractor tires and mud flaps? NOW get out there and chop that sucker!

 

Yeah, but did you take a good look at the "car" in my pic?

 

Never UNchopped a car, but I have Chopped a Chopped car before...!

 

I can see it now, a 49 Merc with a roofline like a Telephone T. Raised rooflines will be touted as the "New Black."

 

Hot Rod Ron unchopped his '32 5 window because the chop was screwed up, then rechopped it.....

 

OOOh my god

 

Yes!!! I have! A 1931 Ford pickup cab ????????

 

crap, I don't care who ya are, thats funny stuff right there folks.