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After looking at these photos, how about you build a chopped Wagon

here here ...
I can think of a million things that would make a wagon look better , Im just scared your gonna join the restorers club
I think we know you have got ideas but wonder why your not gung ho full bore into it !

The SA ek 2 door used to live not far from my hut at Maryland.
He called himself Mr Tubbs and done rear tub conversions on cars.
cheers Rob

he didn't do the tubs on that car, unless he redid them

there's been that chopped two doored one from QLD, the biggest thing stoppin' me from choppin'
SCREENS if they weren't such a headache i'de be into it

I have the fibreglass pattern for the front screen

Just need a body to chop, for setup. And a spare $3,500 for the furnace mould and the test screens

Best chopped sedan Ive seen Mick as Ive said before !!! I dont like what became of it however

Harko if you can pull off the same mate it will definetly be a standout !!!

he will it wasn't hard at all

Paul, how much has been taken out of the screen mould you have and how was the car that the screen originally was made for chopped ? i.e. , was the roof widened or the pillars pulled in ? If there are a few people interested in chopping a car , and a common screen could be made available would it just then be a matter of everyone chopping their cars in a similar way and using a Smooth Customs screen ?
If you could find 5 starters who are willing to cough up $1000 each for 2 windscreens which is pretty bloody cheap then everyones a winner !

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looks like someone else's car wonder if i'll have everybody blowing wind up my arse

Blacky

The pattern I made was of a stock screen
A customer wanted his ute chopped 3" and a list of other work as well.

So I made the pattern, thinking I would do the basic chop as soon as the job arrived and get the custom screens under way while the rest of the work was happening

I intended to just drop the roof and adjust the screen posts. Cut down the pattern till it fitted and then send it out to have the Furnace mould made.

A few days before the job was to arrive the guy changed his mind!

After the furnace mould is made, a screen would possibly cost between three and five hundred dollars. This would cover manufacturing costs and a persentage to the furnace mould cost.

This is based on a set of screens I had made three years ago for another job. Possibly there would be a small persentage rise in that time, or maybe not.

At the moment I have no plans to take on any more work or special projects as I have two jobs that will keep me busy for the next six months.

After that I have an EJ project for myself, and then I would like to get back to an FB EK custom Scotty and I have been contemplating for possibly six or seven years.

Gday Ratbox
I see on the chopped coupe that you didnt' make the roof wider to align the pillars,
just leaned the pillars in to suit the roof(much quicker & easier)

Question is:- how did you get a windscreen to fit?

I've always thought the wrap-around windscreen prevented the post leaning method!
Easy for early cars with flat or curved screens, but not wrap-around.

Cheers
Jeff

Mick will have to explain what he did for the screens

A wrap around screen can be cut several ways. With tapered posts the screen needs to be cut on the lower trailing edges to remove a wedge shaped piece. This then lays the screen back and the side sections can be trimmed as well as a band across the top.

Doing it this way, the vertical cuts become tapered.
But all laminated screen cutting is a hit and miss deal.

Just a thought Paul, there is quite a bit of talk on this forum about chopping and the biggest drama is glass - sharing the cost of the initial 10 screens may give everyone a head start.

when i did that car there was a loop hole in the rego laws here that said, "IF" the vehicle is fitted with glass it has to be approved saftey glass, so i took it for engineers and rego with no glass in it which at the time was perfectly legal then after rego just put lexan in
but i think that loop hole has been closed now
last i heard i beleive it does have a glass screen in it now