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firstfabba

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My second rat rod. Having more fun with this one than the first. I'm calling this front suspension "staggered perpendicular quarter elliptical". Flying Goddess is a gift from a friend. Doing a front to back fender swap, using the old louvered inner fenders as fender skirts. Air bagging the rear. Will do somewhere between 3" & 6" chop. No channeling needed with this cab. Also putting running boards back on.
 

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I like where this is going. I have similar plans for an old set of Cheby "Alien" headlight buckets. They were made to float. :D We won't be the first, but we will be the few.
 
Little more progress on 41.

Saving my $$ for bags to replace the blocks. Should have cab chopped and put back together by next weekend.
 

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There is one of these for sale near me. Problem is it's attached to a Fire Truck.:eek:
re you going to lean back the A pillars or split the roof ?
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Torchie
 
46 chop

Cris boggess, the street rod instructor at UVU has done a few binder chops some of his work is featured in Tex Smith books, ( RIP Tex ) We have a binder behind the barn for a some day built. The Kid in the Next stall when I was taking the Fab class at UVU did a chop on an internatal under Cris;s direction His method is to drill out the spot welds and remove the inner roof panel and cut the roof skin loose. Then he slits the A post and takes out a chunk from it windshield side only. then slide the windshield headder down. He leaves the doors alone. The windshield is a lot taller than the door glass stock . he gets them the same height , only about a 3 or 3 1/2 in windshield chop. Then he starts pie cutting the roof skin and takes out the bubble shape I like the look when he is done. I am tall enough a radical chop would be too cramped with the channel we plan on doing.
here's a link to the first of about 20 video's on 2 of the builds cris has done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIm3ptWE-kY
 
Haircut time for the 41

Got lucky and only have to split the cab one way. In my mind, the quality of metal used in the cab of this pre-war truck is substantially better than my 47 Ford. Thoughts on that??
 

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More progress on chop

Got the front section of the cab tacked in place. Fitting nicely.
 

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Buttoning up

Lots of welding to go, but everything fitting to my eye's satisfaction.
 

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