How-To Chop Tops - Hardcover

Remus, Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1941064051 ISBN 13: 9781941064054

Publisher: Wolfgang Publications, 2007

Synopsis

How-To Chop Tops Nothing defines a hot rod like a chopped top. How To Chop Tops takes a photo-intensive look at the best way to lower the roof on the project car in your garage. Over 300 images document the start-to-finish chopping of six cars, from a Mo

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Description: Nothing defines a hot rod like a chopped top. How To Chop Tops takes a photo-intensive look at the best way to lower the roof on the project car in your garage. Over 300 images document the start to finish chopping of six cars, from a Model T Ford to a 1960 Oldsmobile. Also included is a convertible top chop, one roof-filling sequence and numerous welding sequences. Interviews with professionals help to explain not only the actual cutting, but all the other items that must be determined before the actual chopping starts. Planning the chop includes deciding how to reinforce the body, what to do about the glass, and where to position the cuts to minimize warpage and body work later. Whether you need help picking the right tool or deciding where to position the new seam, How to Chop Tops provides the how-to steps you need to chop a top on both new and old hot rods. --Pitstop

If you're thinking of undertaking a roof chop, it's an invaluable resource, laying out in deatil the various techniques and processes - both thoeretical and practicale - that every good chop should go through. The 15-page bok is devided into chapters, which between them cover the start-to-finish chops of a Model T coupe, Model A sedan ( including filling the roof), a '34 3-window coupe, '39 Plymouth four door, ' 41 convertibale, '60 Olds sedan and a Dodge Charger. In short, the majority of different roof styles you're likely to come across. Don't start a chop without reading this first. --Custom Car magazine, August 2008

If you're thinking of undertaking a roof chop, it's an invaluable resource, laying out in deatil the various techniques and processes - both thoeretical and practicale - that every good chop should go through. The 15-page bok is devided into chapters, which between them cover the start-to-finish chops of a Model T coupe, Model A sedan ( including filling the roof), a '34 3-window coupe, '39 Plymouth four door, ' 41 convertibale, '60 Olds sedan and a Dodge Charger. In short, the majority of different roof styles you're likely to come across. Don't start a chop without reading this first. --Custom Car magazine, August 2008

...starts with relatively easy vehicles, including a Model T and Model A, which have straightforward angular bodies. it progresses through more curvaceous mid to late Thirties to Sixties cars with large expanses of relatively flat panels. it requires bravery and skill to cut these up to avoid distortion. The use of hammers, dollies, sandbags, spoons and welding equipment is the same, whether you are lowering a roof or splicing a patch panel into a rusted fender. --Classic American, November, 2013

About the Author:

Best known for motorcycle titles "How to Build a Chopper" and "How to Build a Cheap Chopper," how-to author Tim Remus is also the author of custom painting book "Advanced Airbrush Art" and fabrication title "Ultimate Sheet Metal Fabrication." Today the former auto mechanic runs a small publishing company, Wolfgang Publications, located in Stillwater, Minnesota. Some of his personal projects include a recently finished 250-tire Softail and an old Henry J hot rod he says may never be finished. He lives in Stillwater, Minnesota.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wolfgang Publications
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1941064051
• ISBN 13: 9781941064054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 146