How To Chop A Beetle Roof

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How to chop a beetle roof. 160 videos play all 56 beetle chop top eleanore duckmancycles and vw garage 1953 ford f100 pickup cab goes to bodywork duration. Here are the pages from the 3 part article by keith seume in the christmas 1997 through february 1998 editions of volksworld magazine. Eleanore s roof gets leveled rotten old chop top 1956 vw beetle 134 duration. See more ideas about vw bug vw cars vw beetles.

Too much chop and the nice gentle curve of the roof is lost. Volksrod rover v8 pt 4 roof chop in about 45 mins duration. Part 1 rocky horror showzam duration. May 19 2020 explore kaloa robinson s board chop top bug on pinterest.

What makes chopping so difficult beyond the welding is the angles. To align the posts again sheet steel is added which stretches and flattens the roof lines the gently curving arc is a critical feature of the beetle. For this car we had to add a new 1 4 panel as. Classic car creations 44 002 views.

By mike 2009 11 15 11 40 am. The first part of this article was what was used to chop bugzilla we never did get a hold of the second and third parts before the chop was finished. When top shapes were largely vertical and straight say model as top chopping was merely a process of cutting a band out of the. Step eight this view illustrates how you cut through the firewall to drop the roof.