Now i know some people are going to say dont chop a 4 door or to make it a 2 door but i think this would look killer with a chop and suicide rear doors so heres the question the rear window has been giving me fits trying to figger out how to do it or what to replace it with heres what i came up with see attached pic what im thinking is take inches out of the a and b pillar like normal cut above the reag glass and take the inches out there not even try to lay it down just not even touch it i hope the pic helps i would greatly appreciate any suggestions
Looks like a good way to destroy a nice looking old cruiser. I'd sell it to someone who appreciates it the way it is and find a two door something to chop if it were me. I just don't see a way to do it and make it look right or more important work right.
hey hey , those old mopars have a lot of crown on top , if you chop it 2 -3 inches max you can blend in the rear crown no problem , you still have to cut the windshield , if you have enough experience and its a keeper , have at it ...keep us posted
yea Im still up in the air its a no rust car drives good when i got it was lowered trim shaved kinda toying with the idea im not set one way or the other
Looks too nice to chop... I'd find something a little rougher to cut up and leave that one for someone else to appreciate.
lets be clear thats not the car, the one i swapped for someone already shaved the trim off i wouldnt touch a car that nice
heres what the photochopers came up with "Dropped and chopped. I kept the rear window intact by moving it forward a few inches, narrowing the C-pillar, and widening the rear deck. The side trim is moved down about an inch, too." i kinda like it not sure how bad it would be to duplicate in steel
...I had to read that a few times to see the implications..... A pillar chop ok, front of roof goes forward, roof piece added to maintain B pillar location, roof piece added behind B pillar, chop over rear window, added roof piece to fill gap, maintain stock position of rear window. In doing this, as I see it, the roof will be chopped but not the back window glass which will look strange when the windshield is chopped. The rear will look too high and you may have a terrible time with the flow of the roof as it transitions to the back window (that's why most people lay down the back window). The other things you will have to modify are the tops of the rear doors where they meet the chopped and extended roof before the back window (re-radiusing the window frames). That's what I see happening...hope it's not too confusing....
Greetings! The original plan for my '52 Buick more-door was to update the drive train and leave the rest alone but the more I looked at the car the more I realized if I did I'd be cheating myself out of a grand opportunity to create something beautiful. I say follow your dreams.
I'm thinking of chopping my 55 DeSoto the way you're talking. Leaving the back window alone and take some out of the crown to blend it with the rest of the chop.Only a couple of inches chopped out of A pillars (2 door hardtop) Interested to know what you wind up doing. db
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