Top Chop Gone Wrong
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Top Chop Gone Wrong
This falls into the category of "just because you can doesn't mean you should". I am sure that this fellow did not have this "look" envisioned when he broke out his sawzall...the truck is now for sale on the local CL with more photos (just in case you thought that it would look better from a different angle)...
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Jim, either he accidentally cut in the wrong place or he may be really, really short. Either way, that is one ugly truck. It may just be the picture, but the windshield and the door window look like foggy plexiglass.
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chopped too much to leave the rest of the truck profile stock. Needs to pancake the hood, lower the cowl, possibly section the bedsides, etc.. this is the reason I only wanted 2 1/2" off the top of my truck. Easy way to avoid this is to use photoshop before cutting.
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I'm probably not one to talk but I think the bulging look of the roof is a big part of the odd look. I'm sure many will say that mine is cut too hard too. The skin of my roof was take from a plymouth station wagon which gave a flatter appearance.
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I think you're right about the shape of the roof. It almost looks like some guys bald head or something. Yours looks much better with the flat roof.
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Since the A pillars slope upward, when the top is chopped the roof must be extended or the pillars sloped back at a radical angle. For instance, Midfifty sells a roof panel that is sized for this exact application. Whoever did this roof mod did not understand he finer points of geometry. Drewski's truck on the other hand looks nicely proportioned with an appropriate slope/roll/bulge in the roof section. I have a 50 Merc coupe that I will be chopping sometime in the near future and I am very aware of the distinct bulge to the stock roof. I was in Austin TX a few years ago at Mercury Charlie's shop and I asked him about this because I noticed that his beautiful chopped Merc did not seem to have the same bulge in the roof. He confided that he had pancaked the roof only 3/4 of an inch, yet the difference in how it looked was like night and day.
