awoo
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Feb 27, 2007 17:57:37 GMT
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I remember back in the day when I had a golf there was some bloke knocking on about a chappy that wuold do a roof chop on any car for £250. it sounded like it would bastardise your car beyond belief but now that technology has improved beyond MSpaint, could some young whizz kid glitch the RAM to the hotmail and reeboot the mainframe in photoshop to do a MK2 golf with a roof chop. I'm really intrigued to see what it would come out like, something like this with couple inches knocked out of it would be dashing. spent few mins doing a paint one but its shoddy, something like this but better if you no what I mean. cheers!
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Last Edit: Feb 27, 2007 19:07:00 GMT by awoo
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Tomarse
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Feb 27, 2007 22:25:17 GMT
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Interesting idea that. It's not often you come across roof chopped cars other than the same obvious few.
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Feb 27, 2007 22:36:27 GMT
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To be honest mate, you've done a blinding job with mspaint! A few jaggies but gets the point across....
...and it looks great. no doubt it'd be a zillion times harder than roofchopping a beetle or whatever due to the construction changes, but nothing is impossible after all.
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bryn
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Feb 27, 2007 22:41:36 GMT
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Great job as far as I can see, there used to be one doing the rounds in this country maybe four or five years ago. Blue was the colour... I think. Dubbers?
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Volvo, Buggy, Discovery and an old tractor.
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sparko
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Any good to you?
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aghhh! beat me
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Last Edit: Feb 28, 2007 1:52:17 GMT by billyfive
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I like it....... I like it alot!!!
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Yeah, there was a roof chopped Mk2 about, and they did a shorty as well, sure it was the same place. Think the shorty was a Jetta? I forget.
I wonder what happened to Paul "you hold it I'll chop it" Wayling? That guy performed roof chops on everything going.
Back in the day chops were in for everything. I remember Cortinas, Avengers, Escorts, Minis, Beetles, Minors, etc etc
Ah, draylon interiors
those were the days.
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Yeah, there was a roof chopped Mk2 about, and they did a shorty A chopped shorty Mk2 Golf. I beleive they're the same car, Though i can't remember which paintjob came first.
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Last Edit: Feb 28, 2007 9:27:47 GMT by Jack
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Feb 28, 2007 13:57:22 GMT
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works for me.
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planty
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Feb 28, 2007 14:56:35 GMT
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what about a golf 'minus' with the chop out of the lower bodywork... would look schweet if done right...
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but then that was a peugeot and they're generally made of cheese anyway ;D
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bryn
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Feb 28, 2007 15:40:17 GMT
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Like if it was sectioned? That's when you take a slice out of the body, just in case you weren't aware of the term
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Volvo, Buggy, Discovery and an old tractor.
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Feb 28, 2007 16:46:39 GMT
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Hmmmm how would that work though? Golfs are pretty tight on height under the bonnet so you'd have to drop the engine a bit (muchos subframe work) or stick it through the bonnet like those sectioned minis - ugly as sin. Still, be nice to see it and 'nothing is impossible'!
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awoo
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Feb 28, 2007 17:14:34 GMT
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cheers they look actually like they exist! I'm digging this idea quite alot. theres an accident repair guy who does cheap but good welding down the road, ill ask him about it see what he thinks about it all and if hell give me a quote!
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Mark
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Feb 28, 2007 18:35:58 GMT
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I'm liking that
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tigran
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Feb 28, 2007 18:41:12 GMT
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How would you go about chopping a 'modern' (i.e. post 40's motah)? I can see how it would be possible with something like a model A ford or similar but how do you do it with non straight A/C pillars?
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awoo
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Feb 28, 2007 19:25:59 GMT
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i think it would need 2 or 3 roofs/ cut them out so that they can be elongated to reach the pillars and patches welded in to fill the spaces, or cut out the corners and fill the bits in the middle. sure theres a way of doing it properly
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tigran
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Feb 28, 2007 19:33:36 GMT
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Ahh that way round, I thought a stub of the existing pillars was usually left and lowered to the other half of the pillars.
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awoo
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Feb 28, 2007 22:43:12 GMT
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yeah on the 30's coupes i thnk thats the standard way of doing it as the pillars are vertical.
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Feb 28, 2007 23:11:10 GMT
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cheers they look actually like they exist! I'm digging this idea quite alot. theres an accident repair guy who does cheap but good welding down the road, ill ask him about it see what he thinks about it all and if hell give me a quote! Get a price on glass first. Especially the screen.
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