Make sure the doors line up properly before starting or they might just be worse when you finish.
Body dropped 49 plymouth coupe chopped roof.
1930 plymouth 3 window coupe mopar hemi auto.
Original grille shell and front axle.
Finally it can take up to a year to finish the bodywork on a bad roof chop.
This is where the quality of planning for the chop shows up.
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Dig that rear window.
Very cool customized original frame with dropped front x member and new leaf spring.
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This is my 1949 plymouth business coupe it has been chopped 4 inches and i put in a 40 ford truck rear window and it is 72 charger running gear with a built 318 and a 273 posi track rearend from.
The chevy roof grafted on would be killer.
Woolery added less than an inch to the top s length to make it right.
Body is chopped filled channeled and is solid.
I think the stock roof line is too flat across the tops of the doors and rear windows and the rear glass is too steep.
New hairpins front and back.
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The inside of the roof just ahead of the b pillar shows a similarly limited amount of work.
It took over a year to finish the roof chop on my car.
It takes a month to finish weld the chop.
Again the bends in these strips.
I used two gallons of body filler on it and most of that ended up on the floor grated or sanded.
With that said let s get this chop started by showing the subject in its formal self.
The rest of the body will just fold outwardly if not held together properly.
Here s my 50 plymouth stock body and all.
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This is a 1949 plymouth special deluxe coupe chopped about 8 1 2.