<TABLE id=HB_Mail_Container height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0 UNSELECTABLE="on"><TBODY><TR height="100%" width="100%" UNSELECTABLE="on"><TD id=HB_Focus_Element vAlign=top width="100%" background="" height=250 UNSELECTABLE="off">Looks cool but then I'm parcial........ Rags </TD></TR><TR UNSELECTABLE="on" hb_tag="1"><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 1pt" height=1 UNSELECTABLE="on"> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
MY 2c, there is a lot of visual m*** in the lines of the fenders and doors, quite chunky. I think that the hard top is in proportion as it is, especially being a "sloper".
im BEGGING u to not chop it... its SUCH a cool car.. if u must chop, sell this one and buy a worse off stocker, then start there... please please please!
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=435738&stc=1&d=1208314640 If you are going to chop it, chop it baby!
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,or not looks better with the stock roofline,,,,cant say that about too many cars,,but i dont think a chop improves this particular car
Please dont chop it! looks killer, i think that the chop wouldnt flow with the fast back lines. just leave it alone. But if you get tired of it, Im in the ATL. and i would love to take it off your hands. Im still kickin myself for not going to look at it after talking with the guy. My loss your gain.
That is going to be very difficult to chop, as the roof line is continuous through the trunk to just above the rear bumper. I wouldn't attempt it, or have anybody else do it unless they had done half a dozen successful chops on complex body styles. -Jeff
Please don't chop it. Just recrome the port holes. install lincoln push****ons in those door holes and drive the **** out of it. Or sell it to Laydrag. Torpedoes are a ***** to chop and nearly impossible to chop right. Here are a few links that show how b*** did his. He makes it look easy, I'm sure it's not. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=202209&highlight=chevy http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=208995&highlight=chevy
Draggin37's photochop looks good. You really want to shop around before you let someone chop that. Oh, and make sure you have $$$. Torpedo chops aren't cheap.
Thanks to all the comments and photochoppers. You guys that do this are gifts to the HAMB board... any chance of throwin' some wide whites on there and any thing else you wanna do to it if it was yours...
chopping that is one of the hardest chops out there. bar none. if not done absolutely the car is pretty much ruined. The guys that can do it right want big money to do one. It's definately not the chop to start with... If you brought it to me I'd call in some side help to make sure I was going about it the right way. Only one guy in the area that I would trust to give me the right direction on it...
<TABLE id=HB_Mail_Container height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0 UNSELECTABLE="on"><TBODY><TR height="100%" UNSELECTABLE="on" width="100%"><TD id=HB_Focus_Element vAlign=top width="100%" background="" height=250 UNSELECTABLE="off">I'm having trouble downsizing pictures right now but as soon as I can I will. Rags P/s Mine is shaved, nosed, decked, frenched headlights and tailights, on a 77 Cad ch***is with air bags. It's running a 472 turbo 400 and a/c. What a ride, you realy got something there keep it and cruise man. Rags </TD></TR><TR UNSELECTABLE="on" hb_tag="1"><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 1pt" height=1 UNSELECTABLE="on"> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Here are some pictures of Rags' '50 Buick Sedanette. he's my Bro-In-Law so I'll get some pictures to here and I'll e-mail you others.... if that's cool?
its the same Style as a Fleetline. take a look at how B*** chopped the fleetline he did..my Fleetline is chopped to the way B*** did it is the least amount of body work and the thought process is already done...my top retained the same line as a stock its just lowered.
Its his car let him do what he wants with it, good heavens its just metal!!!!! NOT!!!!!!! **** THAT. Dudddeee dont chop it. That space car looks ready to go, you'll probably kick yourself years later.
<TABLE id=HB_Mail_Container height="100%" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0 UNSELECTABLE="on"><TBODY><TR height="100%" width="100%" UNSELECTABLE="on"><TD id=HB_Focus_Element vAlign=top width="100%" background="" height=250 UNSELECTABLE="off">Chopping a Sedanette is like getting a breast reduction....Why! Rags </TD></TR><TR UNSELECTABLE="on" hb_tag="1"><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 1pt" height=1 UNSELECTABLE="on"> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>