Hot Rods Well I'm committed now.

Well yesterday I decided hell with it. I had been dragging my feet for a couple of months on chopping the top on my 38 chev cab. Here is a before shot and a couple of others including a shot with the top sitting on it with my ol man hamming it up.

 

Yea, You went and done it now had'nt ya. Looks cool man.

 

yeah man nice chop not too much not too little

 

nice chop

 

looks good, how much did you take out?

 

3inches. Now I get the fun part of welding it back together.

 

I have a 37 chev that i plan to take 3 in out of. I like the look of your truck thanks for the info

 

Here are a couple more pics.

 

What would you guys suggest for adding to the length? I am currently looking for a late 30's cab top I can use for fill material.

 

Lay the A pillar back instead, it will look killer like that.

OR

Section a foot out of it so its just like your bunk to sit in.............

Great hight though, like cafekid said, not too much, not too little.

Doc.

PS, Jeez dude, your older than I pictured an active service E-7 to be

 

what docwatson said... It looks dumb to me for someone to add a stripe of metal in the middle when they easily could have just laid the A pillars back to meet the top.

 

Here are some diagram's from the Gene Winfield class, he is very much against the adding to the middle method, he says to cut the top of a neon, other car out, whatever has enough crown to it. you can make a cardboard template of your roof so you can find the closest curve profile out in the scrap yard.

use that so you can hammer gas weld around the perimeter, less metal work and less chance of oil canning. he uses a tucking tool to pinch the corner down for the correct radius, rather than the multiple relief cut method.
It works like a metal shrinker.

 

3" looks about right. Cool truck...........