So...this hot chick in a 41 chevy pulls into my driveway..

CRAZY to cut taht car up seriously... wtf.. i dont get people sometimes..

find a beater one for $1000 and cut that ****, sell this one for 10k and put all that money into this one, custom for wahtever you paid for this beauty..

enough of the rat rod ****, you dont cut everything, especially something taht nice damnit...


ps- he better be a HELL of a body man, cause hes a REAL ***HOLE if he muds up taht car if he cuts it

 

just what you typed. Quick, easy and fun.

 

damn now i feel like a jerk, im at work it took me FOREVER to piost that and now the guy says hes not cuttin it

sorry man, no hard feelins

 

No - no hard feelings man.

Sometimes I wish I had the guts to do it though!!! I just got to drive it this week and went over to Chad's and he took the photos. Its been a riot driving it all over the place. The guy I bought it from had only driven it 250 miles since '83 and I've done 100 miles here in town since Tuesday!!

 

No offence directed, But id sell that ****er to one of the Homies and let them do there tricks to it.

Or just do a mild treatment to it and Roll it as the family car.

'40 Chev sedans look like **** chopped anyways.

Or you could do like the latest trend & remove all the fenders & put on a tractor grill, Z the front & rear with a stock no drop model A axle, and cut like 9" outa the top. Seems like alot of guys here enjoy that look.

My parents had one back in about 1967, blue metallic, black diamond tuck with ****ons & chrome reverse wheels.

Was real cool just like that

 

id do whatever the **** you wanted to do with it! if the guy sold him the car, he can fizz bomb it pink and paint a turtle on the hood! why bust this guys balls for wantin to chop it? its his car... i wouldnt chop if it was mine...i just like the looks better without the chop!! but thats just me! you have one hellofa great start man! you should be proud!

 

chop the **** out of it. are we hotrodders or restorers?

 

I wouldn't chop that car...not because its a nice survivor, but because I can't imagine any improvement a chop would bring to that bodystyle. A nice way of saying it would look like **** chopped.

What you said...slam it, wide whites, maybe some fender skirts...cruise...

 

What a crock of ****. If some restorer gets their hands on that car it will get locked up and NEVER enjoyed. Everyone knows that the pristine cars go in a vault never to be seen or enjoyed by any public!

I say **** everyone. Do what you want. i wouldnt cut it, but I would drive the living **** out of it! THATS what cars are for.

 

you are ****ing awesome.

nothing says bad*** like a 36 rusted to hell and back international truck cab, "just the cab of course" with a rusted *** small block hooked to a 12 bolt with $250 a piece coil overs...

every good thing gets ruined by people that just don't get it.


oh and for the record,
the sedan is ***s.

do it like it would have been done in the late forties by a kid in high school.

fads come and go,

but cl***ic is timeless...

 

Beautiful Chevy, man. Congratulations.

I've learned the hard way to start with the nicest car you can afford, and go from there. Fixing rust is a ****ty job, unless you're getting paid for it.

 

yea...sell the car for 10K so you can invest 20K in parts and labor fixing up an old POS rusted out pile of ****....makes so much sense to me. My time is worth more and more the older I get. Hobby or not. I would love to start with something nice to build a really nice car...ne fixing bent stainless,rust,finding lost parts that can be impossible or expensive to find etc. Hell I have almost 10K in my kids 57 wagon....for that much I could have started with a really nice car that was already most of what I wanted and not had to spend a year fixing the stuff that I did. Trim clips for just the top half of the car are almost $250....

 

I actually looked for a 41 because I wanted a 40's fat fendered Chevy and the more I looked I realized that the 41 windows are about three inches shorter than the 40 or 42, 46, 47, 48's.

Factory chop?


Not trying to tell you to chop it or not but I would definitely drop it first and then decide...

 

I would say dont chop, but that photo chop does look pretty cool... Good point about finding a shell of a car to chop. then you could do other body mods if you wanted,
maybe do another photoshop but unchopped and just dropped.

 

Nice ride .. My brother has a 48 Dodge with the same basic story

I think people don't drive them much, cause they can't compete
on the highway with other vehicles, slow, don't stop well , no creature comforts.etc
They can only roll around in just so many parades and that gets boring or the guy is too old to drive anymore

My advice, do what you have to to bring it into 2007
I think they make nice bolt on suspension stuff, get some quality brakes, lower it a few inches, wide whites, black rims
hop of the six
Not like its a real rare car .. I like it it could be real slick !!

 

Since solid original cars got hard to find.

Part of the art of choosing a car to customize is finding one that needs a little love here and there, or one that has been added to/taken away from over the years.

One with all metal intact, original floor pans, panels and such is MUCH better candidate for a concours resto than a chop job. One that need floor boards, rockers, lower quarters and drip rails is a PRIME suspect for a chop.

in case anyone is wondering to get a 100 point judging sheet at a well judged concours things like floor pans are checked.

Back in ths day it didnt matter what was customized cuz you could roll down to the new car lot and buy another one just like it.

Nowadays original tin is something to be valued.

 

yeah, yer right, NO ONE ever enjoys restoring a car then driving it.

 

Drop it first....

Go MILD CUSTOM before getting all crazy...

and if you do chop it, I'd say take only the tiniest bit out, so everyone would wonder what it is about the proportions that just seem so riiiight..... ya know?

 

simple, drop it & drive it...

 

go here for inspiration http://www.deadendmagazine.com/

just my .02
Mike

 

NO CHOP...!!!! Sell her

 

Wow, somebody actually gets it. I'm always amused/annoyed by that "they built thousands of these" at***ude. Yeah, they built thousands 70 years ago... They built millions of T's too, but there's only a few thousand left, most of which aren't soild original cars.
It's just car ethics. Don't take from the hobby when you can add to it.

 

Cut it up, make a restorer cry. This is a rod and custom board, not a stock resto board. You save a lot of time not having to patch up rust, and by the time you buy patch pannels, and all of the consumables to fix a rusty old car, starting with a cherry car that you may pay more for initialy, it may cost more to buy the not-so-nice car, and get it right.

However, I dont think 2 door sedans look right chopped.

 

I second that. The idea of a top chop is to make the car look better, not worse, and I've yet to see a chopped '41 sedan that I liked that way. That's my opinion......but then, I'm me, so whose opinion would you expect me to have?

 

i'll help chop, needs all the help it can get

 

Since you asked, yes that's a dumb idea. Your economics are totally backward. In the end, it's always cheaper to start nice unless you're building a rat rod or dragster that discards 90% of the car.

 

Just what I was thinking. What was that I used to hear all the time, "As long as there is one other original/restored car left, the rest are fair game". I've been seeing alot of this on hear, don't do it to that original/restored _____
Leave it alone, etc... WTF is going on around here.

Drew

 

" As long as there is one original left" HaHaHa I gotta remember that one.

 

Cut it.... the low riders already have enough of them saved. Besides if your going to "CRUISE" it you'd better do something about that drive train, take one on a road trip and you'll know what I'm saying.

 

Some cars are hard to improve on as far as inherit good looks go - '40 Fords, '50 Olds 88s, & '41 Chevvies all need nothing but detail cleanup & lowering to be just right.
Just split the manifold, cut 2 coils in front & find some 15" wheels so you can run 6.40 & 8.20 WWs & Olds Starfires - suddenly it's 1961 !