to chop or not to chop

[Grizzley Dell]

ive been considering a roof chop on my mk2 tina 2 door but ive been getting a lot of stick from den100e about it. . oppinions please....

[Slammed]

hmm its a 2 door ..i wouldnt mate maybe back in the 90's i would as there were plentiful about

[TILBROOK]

ive been considering a roof chop on my mk2 tina 2 door but ive been getting a lot of stick from den100e about it. . oppinions please....

dell please dont chop !!!!!

[GT_lenny]

i wouldn't plus weren't you telling me the other week your no good a fabrication?

 

theres alot more to it that just shortening the pillars

[Mrs O/H/C]

Nnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!

 

[banarama]

and no chop

[CrazyCharlie]

i'd say its ur car ur choice

[Pipster007]

Well you'd be saving weight on metal and glass if you chop it and drag it up the strip, plus I'm sure it'd be more economical to run as you'd drop it's drag coefficient

[tina2]

Why spoil a nice design

[D-FENS]

dont chop it drop it,slam it to the floor.

[v8cortina]

I say no chop. I have an old picture somewhere of a chopped Mk2 Cortina. I will try and find it and post it up for you to have a look

[Grizzley Dell]

blimey, whats up with you lot. i reckon it would look the nuts. oh yeah lenny i wont do it myself mate, it would end up a convertable if i did it.

[NeilT]

chop it... be different!! its your motor and if you want to chop it do it imho just excet your proberly going to get some grief for it !!!

[w p e]

are you maddddddddd

[Grizzley Dell]

are you maddddddddd

 

quite probably mate

 

i remember seeing one with a chop years ago and i fell in love with it. just looked so sleek and squashed. i know its a 2 door but its a rusty old heap and its never gonna have a decent body(much like me) so why not do something different with it.

 

chop, jackup kit, big anti tramp kit, red light over the axle and some proper old skool fatties on the back. you know...70's style baby

[w p e]

i can supply the jack ups i found some recently in my stash

[Grizzley Dell]

i can supply the jack ups i found some recently in my stash

 

 

oh yeah baby, what ya after for em?

[dean307e]

what r u crazzzzzzyyyyyy dont you dare.how would you like the top of your head cut off

[Grizzley Dell]

what r u crazzzzzzyyyyyy dont you dare.how would you like the top of your head cut off

 

be a bit drafty. at least i'd never be short of an ashtray

[v8cortina]

I searched and found. Scanned these in - hope it gives you a good idea what it might be like

 

[v8cortina]

 

chop, jackup kit, big anti tramp kit, red light over the axle and some proper old skool fatties on the back. you know...70's style baby

 

Those were the days I had a 63 Mk1 Cortina jacked up, red light over axle, wide steels - going back almost 30 years!! now

[Grizzley Dell]

it looks cool. shame it was a 4 door though. hmm im still up for it.

[Jiffer]

for the love of god NO, the mk2 in my opinion one of the best looking cars ever

[Skimmer]

I did a roof chop on a MK2 2 door in the late 80's early 90;s it turned out just what the owner wanted and he was over the moon though as it was a 2 door i think i would have left it unchopped , though during that period i was roof chopping everything and they were good times , if you do it it will definatly be a different angle on a MK2 Tina in this decade as alot of the panels have a "squareness" as opposed to a round / curved panel the metalwork isnt too bad .......Its your car / choice

[Grizzley Dell]

I did a roof chop on a MK2 2 door in the late 80's early 90;s it turned out just what the owner wanted and he was over the moon though as it was a 2 door i think i would have left it unchopped , though during that period i was roof chopping everything and they were good times , if you do it it will definatly be a different angle on a MK2 Tina in this decade as alot of the panels have a "squareness" as opposed to a round / curved panel the metalwork isnt too bad .......Its your car / choice

 

fancy doing another 1