51 Dodge Business Coupe 6" chop

Chopped the coupe 6" Got about 5 hours of work and a case of beer down to a 3min video

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Chop
• Chopping
• Dodge
• Business
• coupe
• 51
• dodge
• riff
• raff
• cc

[rayzhistorychannel]

Jeezus ! I could'nt bring myself to cut on a car like that. Custom rims maybe, interiors, engine mods or trick exhaust systems or even graphics on the paint but nothing that couldnt be changed back to an original-like restoration if the next guy that owned it wanted to. and a buisness coupe no less ! arent those kinda rare ?

[MrRider1405]

lowering those cars suck, i dont like it, this "auto-modification cult" of chopping the roofs/lowering them

[tattooscratcher]

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 !

[crackeradam]

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!

[23coburn]

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.

[tony79dr]

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..

[db0956]

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.

[fordv8man]

What is the music? Cheers. Nice video. 

[hot318]

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.

[filthbomb]

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!)