47 Plymouth chop - H.A.M.B

[MacGyver]

Looks like he's off to a good start. Whether you love it or hate it, this could make for an interesting thread to follow if he keeps posting.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366932

[47heaven]

Sad.

[dezeldoc]

So i guess ya would not like mine!

[Young Ed]

Somebody contact that guy and save the grill stuff he's not reusing

[HotrodLono]

So i guess ya would not like mine!

MORE PIX MORE PIX MORE PIX!!!!!!

Love it already!

[Cpt.Fred]

me too! great project!

[dezeldoc]

It is still like that i have paying jobs got to get out! hopefully in a month or so i can get back on it.

[RobertKB]

Sad.

I agree but to each their own. However, I have never understood chops, lowering, frenching (unless kissing:p), channelling, etc. To me a car that is chopped just looks squashed like a bug. Lowering adds to it. I just like them stock and going for a slow cruise in the country. It just puts me in another time and I enjoy that.

[claybill]

have you seen that 48 chop with 39 packard front grill..? on the HAMB?

whoa!!!! like a lady cloud. gorgeous.bill

[47heaven]

I agree but to each their own. However, I have never understood chops, lowering, frenching (unless kissing:p), channelling, etc. To me a car that is chopped just looks squashed like a bug. Lowering adds to it. I just like them stock and going for a slow cruise in the country. It just puts me in another time and I enjoy that.

Definately, to each his own, but one is also allowed to his or her own opinion of something. I've made it known many times on here how I feel about chopping a car, and, of course, I don't expect everyone to bend the same way I do in my opinions. I mean, people can take it or leave it, I say. I just can't see how someone can cut up a classic car to the point of no return

Dezeldoc...no offense. If it make you feel better, you can take shots at my car for being stock.

[dezeldoc]

Definately, to each his own, but one is also allowed to his or her own opinion of something. I've made it known many times on here how I feel about chopping a car, and, of course, I don't expect everyone to bend the same way I do in my opinions. I mean, people can take it or leave it, I say. I just can't see how someone can cut up a classic car to the point of no return

Dezeldoc...no offense. If it make you feel better, you can take shots at my car for being stock.

Don't bother me i have them in stock, chopped, slammed, hot rod, and full race.

Claybill you mean this one! I dig that car, that is what made me do mine. only have this pic on this computer.

[BobT-47P15]

A chop such as above kinda makes the car more "streamlined".

In the early days of the 40s and 50s, "streamlined" was the wave of

the future. Some chops are better than others - i don't necessarily

like all of them.....but some I see are OK to me.

In HAMBer parlance, they gave it a "haircut".

[Cpt.Fred]

one look at old car advertising and you will see that most of our cars were chopped by the artists anyway...

but i agree, a bad chop is like throwing the car off the cliff, destroys it completely. a good chop, however... :D:D

and by good i don't mean the amount of steel cut off! the lines are what counts. very often, less is more.

i love the blue one, but he should think of a more decent paintjob...

[BobT-47P15]

Here are a couple of Plymouth chops I like. These were at the HAMB drags

in 2006. I don't know if that's a Nash or Caddy grille.

And that green one may have 42 Plym rear fenders.

Edited June 2, 2009 by BobT-47P15

[RobertKB]

Here are a couple of Plymouth chops I like. These were at the HAMB drags

in 2006. I don't know if that's a Nash or Caddy grille.

And that green one may have 42 Plym rear fenders.

Like I said earlier, they look like squashed bugs. Roof height is totally out of proportion to the rest of the car. To each his own but I likes 'em stock. For each chop that is actually finished, I wonder how many others end up unfinished or scrapped due to lack of owner's abilities?

Edited June 2, 2009 by RobertKB
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[BobT-47P15]

I'd say quite a few go by the wayside.

If you read the HAMB, it's pretty amazing what some of those guys can do to an

old car. One of the newer things is making a fourdoor into a two door along with

chopping it. Seems to me the resulting proportions have been good on many of

them.

[woodscavenger]

Love the chops and the un-chopped. To each his own.

[Plymouthy Adams]

probably enough to really get you on a soap box..some things are best left unturned..like the flat rock in the creek with the mocassin beneath it..as a kid we used to go turning these rocks just to kill the snakes..(remember..turn the rock toward you as a shield) I remember taking sis and my cousin on one venture..I turned over the rock...there lay the snake..I put my hand behind me and said hand me a rock..nothing.. turned around and all I could see were a-holes and elbows..they were gone..I fixed my cousin..I put that snake on this bicycle..

[windsor8]

Some chops look good and some don't, just like "stock" cars. When you see a good chop it was created by a craftsman. I don't have any chopped cars but I would like to try it someday.

[plyman 50]

Love the chops and the un-chopped. To each his own.

I like the green one,doesn't seem too over done, But I really go for a more stock look.To each his own. One of these days I'll figure out how to get pictures of my 50 Bus. coupe on here.Got them on phobucket.

[HotrodLono]

I agree but to each their own. However, I have never understood chops, lowering, frenching (unless kissing:p), channelling, etc. To me a car that is chopped just looks squashed like a bug. Lowering adds to it. I just like them stock and going for a slow cruise in the country. It just puts me in another time and I enjoy that.

I think you hit it on the nailhead when you said, 'It just puts me in another time and I enjoy that". Thats a bit of what chopping and lowering is all about. It allows us to take Detriots steel and make it our own.

I've run across a few cars for sale tht have had chops started and not completed. Most of the time its because the owner didnt take the time to think things through or over estimated their abilities. A few years back i bought a 50 Furd that had been chopped and left to rot. There was more work in getting it right than if i had started from scratch.

Theres some cars that are in such fine shape, it make sence to keep them original, but I for one say, if its a low value car to start with, or didnt cost you much, you wont loose turning it into a 50's lead sled and you can express yourself.

Chopped and lowered or bone stock... i love the hobby!

[dezeldoc]

I like the green one,doesn't seem too over done, But I really go for a more stock look.To each his own. One of these days I'll figure out how to get pictures of my 50 Bus. coupe on here.Got them on phobucket.

In your photobucket, go to the pic you want to post and run your mouse curser over it, on the bottom you will notice a box come up with 3 choices, go to the bottom one and left click in it, then right click and choose copy, then in your post right click in it and choose paste and you should see the link for your pic, when ready to post hit the post button.

[falconvan]

Just build one of each, a chopped one and a stock one. They'd look great side by side.

[Young Ed]

Here you go stock and chopped. And its been quite a while but I'm pretty sure the owner we talked to said he was the third person customizing the car so 2 others had started and given up.

[47heaven]

Here you go stock and chopped. And its been quite a while but I'm pretty sure the owner we talked to said he was the third person customizing the car so 2 others had started and given up.

Nice blue Plymouth. What WAS that yellow thing next to it?