This my first post.have a chopped 57 Buick am I posting on the wrong site or are others interested in kustom? TWOCHOPS
Welcome, :grin: This is a great site, full of information, interest, and a bunch of frendily helpful people. Can you tell about your custom, pictures , drive train, etc. Aslo name and location if you want. Thanks Bruce
chopped 57 just dont tell us its a bbc 502 :laugh: but even so its a buick,youll fit in,welcome :beer
Wow! Who did the chop on it? Very good looking job. Just the right amount. Curious how much of a chop is it? Not easy to do and make it look right like yours. Almost a lost art these days. Don't know if I'd lower it any more, it sits real good just the way it is! Love it, 57s are great looking cars, that three piece back window is something I have admired since 1957 when I first saw it.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- I chopped the top --------Cut 2-3/4" out of A pillar dropping the top 2-3/8". all around. One loop cut out of front coils, setting in grass with 2 bags of sand in trunk. TWOCHOPS
Amazing! It's one thing to chop a 30s car where everything is straight up and down and all the glass is flat but with wrap around windshield, etc., and all the curves to deal with, I can't imagine the time it took. Who did the glass work? Can't wait to see it after it's painted. Do you know what color yet?
------------------------------------------------------------------------- I also did the glass work,All glass sunk,a lot of work--but if any glass is broken it can be replaced with stock glass. Right now thinking of painting it silver or silver blue or both. TWOCHOPS
You are obviously not an amateur like the rest of us! Last time I talked to some people around here who had chopped one related how many windshields they broke before getting one to work. Something like 3 or 4. How do you cut one?? I suspect it takes more than a dime store glass cutter.
Told you we were amateurs. Never heard of that way. Makes sense. When you said sunk thought you just meant the laying in process of sealing. That's why we frequent this forum, you learn something new every day. I vote for silver by the way, although it will look great in any color.
what does "sunk" mean when chopping? is it when they take the glass and actually hide it in the body, and you still have the orginal size of glass? o No: it is a very sweet ride btw.
