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.
Body dropped 49 plymouth coupe chopped roof.
This is where the quality of planning for the chop shows up.
It takes a month to finish weld the chop.
Very cool customized original frame with dropped front x member and new leaf spring.
Body is chopped filled channeled and is solid.
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The roof is a major structural point of the vehicle once the roof is off.
Dig that rear window.
1930 plymouth 3 window coupe mopar hemi auto.
Woolery added less than an inch to the top s length to make it right.
I used two gallons of body filler on it and most of that ended up on the floor grated or sanded.
Decent 49 body top has been chopped doors have been shortened on a later model car chassis 302 engine automatic trans power disc brakes project needs a lot of work to finish.
The inside of the roof just ahead of the b pillar shows a similarly limited amount of work.
Again the bends in these strips.
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.
Original grille shell and front axle.
Finally it can take up to a year to finish the bodywork on a bad roof chop.
New hairpins front and back.
Make sure the doors line up properly before starting or they might just be worse when you finish.
The chevy roof grafted on would be killer.
This is a 1949 plymouth special deluxe coupe chopped about 8 1 2.
The rest of the body will just fold outwardly if not held together properly.
With that said let s get this chop started by showing the subject in its formal self.
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When chopped the roof looks even flatter to me.