Thread: Another '32 truck

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Originally Posted by Ken Thurm

John,
I would like to come by your store and meet you if that would be O.K. with you. Tell me what is a good time.

Ken stop by anytime M-F 9-6 and well give you the cooks tour of our operation.

John Palmer

Originally Posted by John Palmer

Ken stop by anytime M-F 9-6 and well give you the cooks tour of our operation.

John Palmer

I will be there tonight about 5:15, look forward to meeting you.
Ken

You must be telepathic, If I post a photo of my cab can you can you make some changes?

O.K. I think I finally figured out what I think it should look like. So if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.
I want to chop it 5", section it 2" at the bottom keeping the body lines, channel it 6", extend the doors 1", and extend the back of the cab 1 1/2".
this should give me an overall height of 47" to 48" and still be comfortable to drive. I'm 6' even and 200#.
I will use the same style frame I built for the other truck, cutting the frame down from 6" to 3" in the interior of the truck.
thank you in advance if you can help me.
Ken

Ken: I think anything you can do to stretch the cab will help a lot. These cabs are short on head and leg room anyway, and when you do the chop, channel, and section you are planning, it really makes it even tighter. I've never cared for the really stretched pickup cabs, like the Speedway glass one, but the modest amount you are planning won't even be noticed, especially in the doors.

I had a '32 pckup years ago that was chopped about 3.5 and channelled about 5 inches, and the roof was very close to my head, and I am only 5.9.

The only thing I question is the section. Looks like you are looking for a sleeker profile ?


Don

you do not need to cut your roof it will come right down you should just sell that cab to me i forgot you have one chop

Well, this is my thinking. My current truck is chopped 4" and channeled 6". The way I did my frame, I have 2 1/2" of head room. I used a Glide seat frame, if I build my own frame I can still have a bench seat and pick up 2" of head room. By stretching the cab I will pick up 2 1/2" of leg room. So if I am correct I will wind up with more interior space than my current one. So the only question is will it look correct.
Denny, thank you for doing that. I have always thought when you chop one of these things over 4" the lower portion of the truck looks way to tall. so thats why I thought by sectioning it the 2" it would even things out. I believe after looking at what Denny did it looks correct. I' going to do it.
Don, my thoughts aren't to streamline it, just to get the overall look symmetrical.
Do you guys think it looks good or not? Forget about head room and cramping, I think I can build that out of the equation.
Pat, what years did you run your truck?
Ken

there was a guy that did add about 4 inchs to the back of the cab look bad very thick looking i think but it is your truck the speed way cab looks very nice with the small side window makes the cab better and not so chunky

Ken,I think the photo Denny did looks pretty good,although I suspect the windshield height is getting too small. I'm stretching a 29 rpu by cutting the top and bottom off of coupe doors. Most of them are rotted on the bottom lip around here anyhow. Oh,I got my issue of street rodder yesterday, nice cars. P.S. You don't actually work in that garage do you? Hank

Geez, don't you guys ever get tired of Deuces? Anyway, rather the just chop and lose all the windshield height (around here that makes it a cop magnet), might want to consider sectioning the body and lose some of that door height and maybe lose a bit of the slab sided look....

Toughest part of doing body mods is to keep everything in proportion... I'd say about 75% of the "chop only" hot rods end up looking like a cartoon car, all sides, no top.... A 2" chop, 3" section, and a moderate (4" to 5") channel along with lengthening the cab by stretching the doors would make for a cab that would keep everything in proportion...... Now, if I knew how to work Photoshop I could check out my theory!!!!!!!!

Dave,
I agree, I don't want this thing looking like a cartoon. The angle I took this photo at is deceiving on the chop. I've seen 5" chops on these trucks , that in my opinion look good, but like you said it starts looking long skirted. That's why I went with the 2" section. It doesn't sound like much but in Denny's photo I thought it evened it out some. I I'm sure I can get another 1" out of it, but then I think it will start looking to Long. Yes No?
Ken


Hank,
Thanks, It doesn't look like that after a week end of thrashing
Ken

I don't know. All the deuces with a chop always long long on the side height to me. Old hot rodder told me years ago that the correct proportion of chop to section is for every 1" of chop, section it 2". The deuce pickup cabs are so short I think I would probably go with that formula. I know a deuce is a "classic look", but nothing is sacred around here. With those big flat sides, if I were to do a pickup or sedan, think I'd do about 2 1/2 of chop and about 5 of sectioning, maybe 5 more on the channel. I guess if you like the proportions stock, then maybe the chop and section would be the same amount....????? I don't like anything stock!!!!!