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Old 09-20-2020, 11:28 AM   #76
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After driving that truck for years on end Cole sold it to Jesse James who put a few of his touches on it and had it for sale a while back. That is probably my favorite chopped AD as it just looks right and the more you look the more sneaky little touches you see.

It's also the truck I used to do my print, cut and tape chopped, stretched and sectioned version That I posted earlier in the thread.
I had forgotten that! Yeah, it's a beauty. Wish I had spent more time at his shop. I went in it just a couple of times when I was a paint rep. I would drive by and see the truck parked out there all the time.

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Old 09-20-2020, 11:39 PM   #77
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Since I am no good at photoshop I have to do the print and scissors and tape thing.

That included Saving the photos of trucks, emailing them to my work email printing them off on the work printer and then cutting and taping and scanning to get the final vision
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Old 09-21-2020, 12:02 AM   #78
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Re: Chopped Trucks

I have one out in my garage that I did the same thing with planning on sectioning my truck. Not Cole Fosters understand but a photo from a magazine.

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Old 09-21-2020, 03:00 PM   #79
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Those two trucks were/are part of the do I or don't I want to lean the windshield posts back again as they are on my truck now? question. I decided no as trying to get everything to fit was one of my project stopping issues. That and the fact that I wore the truck out twice since I chopped it in 1981.
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Old 09-21-2020, 04:05 PM   #80
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I think we have talked about this, on mine I did both, lengthened the top and raked the posts.

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Old 09-21-2020, 04:05 PM   #81
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Mine's 5 inches (I'm talkin' about the truck chop, not braggin' about my endowment )
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Old 09-21-2020, 07:18 PM   #82
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Mine's 5 inches (I'm talkin' about the truck chop, not braggin' about my endowment )
Yeah, mine's 3 1/2". And I have to say your bumper/exhaust is friggin AWESOME! That is brilliant!

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Old 09-22-2020, 01:56 AM   #83
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You can see that 5 inch chop in the back window. I'm with Brian in that I sure like the way you have that exhaust running out from under the flipped over 54 Bumper.
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Old 09-30-2020, 10:22 AM   #84
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That gray one is just friggin awesome!

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Dang... That grey one has me changing my mind about these trucks with a chop!!!
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Old 10-06-2020, 04:38 PM   #85
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You can see that 5 inch chop in the back window. I'm with Brian in that I sure like the way you have that exhaust running out from under the flipped over 43 Bumper.
Brian and Mr. 48 - I've been away on vacation and missed your notes. Thanks for the kind words on the exhaust. I had been thinking about that mod for a long time, figuring it was going to be tough to get just right. I wanted the bumper sitting higher than stock and tucked in. In the end, I simply flipped the bumper arms upside down along with the bumper. Worked like a charm!
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Old 10-06-2020, 04:48 PM   #86
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That's wild, I didn't catch that the bumper had been raised. Which is a good thing, I didn't notice it because it "flows" and looks perfect. The way the bumper drops so much off the frame I am blown away that it doesn't look too high. Very nice indeed!


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Will say the grey one is well done and i like the flipped bumper and dual exhaust. Would love to see how they piped it.
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Old 10-06-2020, 07:13 PM   #88
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i like the flipped bumper and dual exhaust. Would love to see how they piped it.
Happy to oblige as I don't have the bed wood in yet. Exhaust was done by an absolute wizard in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Shout out to Maxim Muffler.
Hand bent one-piece tubing with two mufflers plus two resonators. The man is an artist. Sounds great too. The rest of the work was done in my garage and driveway with much help from my dear old dad. Appreciate the interest....
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wow.
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Old 10-07-2020, 09:43 AM   #90
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Nice job there Calgary. Seems a shame to cover it up with bed boards.
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Nice job there Calgary. Seems a shame to cover it up with bed boards.
Thanks dsraven. I'm thinking about doing a tilting bed floor with hinges but haven't quite figured out how to do it. If anyone has advice, I'd be glad to hear it.
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LS fab sells a set of hinges designed for tilting bed floors, Not inexpensive but they would probably save a lot of hours of trying to make something work.. https://ls-fab.com/73-87-chevy-compo...cissor-hinges/

That 53 and your work on it just flat keeps raising the bar a few notches at a time. Pretty big notches too.
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Since I am no good at photoshop I have to do the print and scissors and tape thing.

That included Saving the photos of trucks, emailing them to my work email printing them off on the work printer and then cutting and taping and scanning to get the final vision
Here's my cut up photo copy. Sectioning that hood is way easier on that piece of paper, I'll tell you that! LOL I am not kidding it just blows me away how similar you and I are with our trucks!

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I'm saving that one to my inspiration file.
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I had to clean up my build album a bit but here is the ideas and inspiration page.
https://photobucket.com/u/mr48chev/a...c-09923125ca83
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Old 10-08-2020, 12:01 PM   #97
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https://photobucket.com/u/mr48chev/a...c-09923125ca83
Very cool collection there, I am honored.

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Old 10-12-2020, 09:08 PM   #98
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I spotted this one on FB today. Slick truck.
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Old 10-13-2020, 12:12 AM   #99
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Man, that red truck is smooth. The slightly off level wheel skirts would be my only criticism. I like painted trucks instead of patina or fake patina though so it already had that going for it. Nothing wrong with patina, I just like a nice paint job better. To each their own.
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Old 10-13-2020, 02:02 PM   #100
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I not only like the shiny paint and the color of the Red truck I posted but several very subtle tricks they used on it that are just right but blend in so well that you might miss them at first glance.

I agree that the style line on the skirt should match the plane of the running board plus carry on in a straight line from the style line on the fenders.

I found this illustration that Rik Hoving did of Cole Porter's old truck with skirts that he drew up and then the truck as it sat when Cole owned it.

Some searching shows that the skirts on the red truck in my post above are probably aftermarket skirts sold to the lowrider brigade.

This truck perfectly shows one thing that I harp on a lot, To be right all the straight lines on the truck have to be on the exact same plane as they are on this truck. Not one line is off kilter from the others on it. No drooping the bed at the back to make the back look lower, no different angle between the door bottom and the running boards and so on.
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