The coupe goes under the knife....

Well, I've been threatening this for a while now. This afternoon I went to my shop with the intention to shim up my body and prep it for it's haircut. The shim and leveling went good, so I decided to go ahead and do some of the cutting as well. I was just going to cut everything half way, you know, to save time for whoever I convinced to come over and help me next week while I'm on vacation. Well....one thing led to another, and it turns out I can lift the whole roof off and on by myself..........so here it sits with a new 4" shave. It's just tacked back together, I've got to make a few relief cuts inbetween the 1/4 and back windows, then finish up the welding. Sorry about the horrible photo's, my camera sucks.......

The knife is always better

Rusty

lol they look like vintage 70's poloroid pics to me lol good job on the chop it looks good

Your camera does suck but the chop looks great.

The chop looks right for the car.

motomech said:

lol they look like vintage 70's poloroid pics to me lol good job on the chop it looks good

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Yeah, maybe you can pass these pictures off as being from back in the day. Chop looks good though. Funny how we intend on just doing something simple but then we keep going.


Don

here is our 29, done now

Well, I've been slowly welding this thing up. I'm considering cutting the doors again to level the tops up with the body. On every A coupe I've seen, the tops of the doors run down hill from the drip rail,it looks like the door is sagging at the top, but the body lines are right on, and it bugs the *^%$ out of me. It's the way it's designed, but it looks wrong to me, so if I raise the back of the doors window frame up a half inch, the sagging look will be gone, but I'll have to cut the window glass a little taller at the back than the front. I can't help but think that this will be less noticable than the sagging look. Another option is to build up the door top and grind it to fit, I guess, but this will give the top of the window frame a slight angle.

Sometimes I wish I just didn't notice these little things, it'd be much easier to finish a car if I just weren't such a picky *******.

sounds like something i would do, just keep going and going, always more then originally planned. looks good though.

Abomb said:

Sometimes I wish I just didn't notice these little things, it'd be much easier to finish a car if I just weren't such a picky *******.

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I know exactly what you mean. Yesterday I helped my Son Dan start building his frame. It took us 4 hours to get it square on the jig! I was done at the one hour mark, but he didn't trust the squareness of the jig, so out came the laser and lots more measuring.

I think his car should be running in about 2025. Your A is looking good though, so I guess the pickiness pays off.

Don

I like it. Keep it up .

Dirty's Hot Rods said:

The knife is always better

Rusty

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Rusty welcome to the forum.I didnt see you sneak in.

You should post the Sutton Build here in the builds thread.I am sure that alot of the guys here would really enjoy it.I have been following it and its really coming out nice.

Just right!

Bonehead said:

The chop looks right for the car.

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I agree, that looks perfect for that car. Good job!

BeerCan