Chopping the ‘52 part 3.
I’ve previously shown the cuts I made to chop the top on my ‘52 chevy pickup and the welds in the back. I was able to lower the rear of the cab straight down, then the choice is either lengthen the roof or slant the window posts. I decided to slant the window posts, if you stretch the roof you can fill the gap with sheet metal, but you also have to stretch the top rail of the door. The best way is to find some junk doors and cut out a section, or you could convert the doors so they don’t have metal rim around the window.
I tried heating the posts with a torch in order to bend them, but there was too much internal structure that couldn’t be heated. I ended up just notching them and using lots mig wire. You can also see the new smoothy firewall. I used 12 ga. sheet metal for the firewall, it helped stiffen it so it doesn’t flex from the brake pedal force (stock the master cylinder was under the floor).
