if your not into kustom cars then why the hell are you looking up videos on then?so you can talk shit about them?i have a 49 plymouth chopped channeled shaved,stretched front fenders,big block 460,and bags,i love cutting up old steel,thats why old cars were put on this earth ......to be cut up and made cool...so all of you anal retentive traditonalists can piss off !
I'm glad there is a debate going about this. We seem to have landed recently (with the advent of the 'rat rod' craze) in a "if it's chopped it's good,'' general miasma vis a vis ANY old car. For those of us who remember the '50's (the most monolithically lame square and stupid decade in the history of human-kind) there is perhaps a little more awareness of balance. A business coupe has so much body mass below the greenhouse, that it's really easy to overdo and get a rolling turd.
6 inches? Why so much? Those cars look good in stock form. I would have gone 2 max on the chop, and worked the suspension. The stance is more iimportant on that car than anything else.. Nice video, and thanks for posting it though..
I love the 6", but why oh why did you ever quarter the top? That is the worst way to go out of all your other options. I have 34 yrs. full-time autobody experience on which to make that statement. At the very least you should've laid the back glass down and spread the posts. If this turns out decent, consider yourselves lucky, not good.
amatures! ...never ,never , NEVER , cut down the center and accross the top ! NEVER! . . . i can see it now 70 pounds of bondo . . . . . always move the rear cowl forward to meet the bottom of roof and ALWAYS cut an inch or two above drip rail to widen top on both sides(earsier to dollywork the sides than the CENTER of the roof!)
Another nice old original car DESTROYED. Every time I go to a car show and see another 350 powered look alike clone chop or slam with dice on the rear view it makes me want to puke. To each his own but I think old cars should be treated as old pleasant memories of the past, and be preserved as a memory of days that have gone by.
lowering those cars suck, i dont like it, this "auto-modification cult" of chopping the roofs/lowering them
MrRider1405 3 weeks ago
if your not into kustom cars then why the hell are you looking up videos on then?so you can talk shit about them?i have a 49 plymouth chopped channeled shaved,stretched front fenders,big block 460,and bags,i love cutting up old steel,thats why old cars were put on this earth ......to be cut up and made cool...so all of you anal retentive traditonalists can piss off !
tattooscratcher 3 weeks ago
wow is almost everyone on here an asshole. not everyone know what to do.. omst jsut have to do it be learning on the curb. NICE JOB GUYS!
crackeradam 8 months ago
I'm glad there is a debate going about this. We seem to have landed recently (with the advent of the 'rat rod' craze) in a "if it's chopped it's good,'' general miasma vis a vis ANY old car. For those of us who remember the '50's (the most monolithically lame square and stupid decade in the history of human-kind) there is perhaps a little more awareness of balance. A business coupe has so much body mass below the greenhouse, that it's really easy to overdo and get a rolling turd.
23coburn 10 months ago
6 inches? Why so much? Those cars look good in stock form. I would have gone 2 max on the chop, and worked the suspension. The stance is more iimportant on that car than anything else.. Nice video, and thanks for posting it though..
tony79dr 1 year ago
I love the 6", but why oh why did you ever quarter the top? That is the worst way to go out of all your other options. I have 34 yrs. full-time autobody experience on which to make that statement. At the very least you should've laid the back glass down and spread the posts. If this turns out decent, consider yourselves lucky, not good.
db0956 1 year ago
What is the music? Cheers. Nice video.
fordv8man 1 year ago
cutting it up is the easy part, its putting the bastard back together thats the time consuming part as you guys have shown.
you're braver than I, i cheated and bought a fibre glass body that was already chopped, lol.
hot318 1 year ago
amatures! ...never ,never , NEVER , cut down the center and accross the top ! NEVER! . . . i can see it now 70 pounds of bondo . . . . . always move the rear cowl forward to meet the bottom of roof and ALWAYS cut an inch or two above drip rail to widen top on both sides(earsier to dollywork the sides than the CENTER of the roof!)
filthbomb 1 year ago
Another nice old original car DESTROYED. Every time I go to a car show and see another 350 powered look alike clone chop or slam with dice on the rear view it makes me want to puke. To each his own but I think old cars should be treated as old pleasant memories of the past, and be preserved as a memory of days that have gone by.
jkt8012 1 year ago
@jkt8012
So you would rather have a car show where all the cars are OEM and STILL ALL LOOK THE EXACT SAME?
pandajosh1234 1 year ago
Was that a Dodge Wayfarer?
underworld999 1 year ago
Done RIGHT! 'Qartered'
tazztt1 2 years ago
post it on the HAMB
meetmeinmyvan 3 years ago
yea i wouldn't even chop it it looked really nice before!!
Nagap 3 years ago
6' chop? That'll look bad!
Too much for me though.
I'm sticking with only a 2" chop.
50chevyguy 3 years ago
harder then you though it would be guys eh!!
bethoveen3 3 years ago
Greetings from Sweden. Cool car great work and good music.
Firefighter834 3 years ago
shit son you guys really gave 'er nicely done
Ebaum744 3 years ago
that shit's gonna look HOT, i want to see the finished product...
akontop 3 years ago
cool chop! i have a 1950 dodge and its good to see someone customizing theirs.
sse7evo7 4 years ago