What does chopped and channeled mean

First off, if you don't like it, buy it and unchannel it! Secondly, it just got me thinking about the hatred that seems unjustified. I'm building a 32 three window right now that I am channeling 2 inches just to make the frame less of an eye catcher. I guess I'm stupid but I think it helps this car.

JPG File size: Joined: Jan 20, Posts: 4, Profile Page. Having owned both. A channeled car is easier to see out of especially seeing traffic lights.

I am not real tall 5 foot 10 so they never presented a room problem, but some of my taller friends bitched about how hard both were to get in and out of and see out. So I ended up with short friends. There are no rules in hot rods. That is why I stopped doing restorations. To each his own. Joined: Apr 28, Posts: Profile Page. Channeled 4" and Chopped 6" How I regret selling this car now. You either love um or hate um, I'm a lover of both if they are done correctly.

T , Sep 9, Joined: Jan 30, Posts: 1, Profile Page. Joined: Apr 30, Posts: 28, Profile Page. Sure it is personal idea of what looks good, to me wheel well to tire is what I see first.

If the body is channeled to the point the tire sits above the wheel well it looks out of place. There is a '32 Roadster build here on the HAMB were the wheel wells and quarters were raised to solve this visual problem. That is a lot of work few people tried to do back in the day. The37Kid , Sep 9, EVL , Paulie9fingers , Jet96 and 5 others like this. Joined: Oct 29, Posts: 10, Profile Page. There are a lot of channeled cars I like and a lot I don't.

Your coupe is really bitchin'. I agree it really helps overall shape of not only the body but the frame, too. What I don't like are the cars hammered so hard that they look broken. Joined: Aug 29, Posts: 3, Profile Page. My last Model A Tudor I channeled 3" and moved the wheel openings up the same amount. Plan on doing the same on the current one. Guess it's a personal taste thing, but it's my car and money and I like it, and to me that's all that really matters.

EVL , golferforpar , Bob Hall and 2 others like this. Joined: Dec 11, Posts: 9, Profile Page. It all depends on the car in question. Nothing looks more hot rod than a channeled fenderless 32 Ford roadster.

Some cars are over channeled and look like rat rods. I think it is all just a matter of personal taste. You need your proportions right. My opinion, which is worthless to anyone other than myself is that a fenderless pickup cab channeled looks like crap. Same with a sedan body, but coupes and roadsters, if done properly just scream Hot Rod. With hot rods, you do your own thing and let those who don't like it look elsewhere.

Joined: Jan 3, Posts: 58, Profile Page. Growing up here in the South when I was in my teens there were not that many hot rods running around but the majority of the early ones seemed to be channeled and not chopped,I believe it was more of a east coast style. My friend Larry had a red channeled hi-boy Deuce that his dad and uncle built and another channeled 5 window chopped top hiboy sat at the local gas station,this was in 66 and I was the typical long and lanky teenager,the price was fair and I had already made up my mind I was going to buy the car and it drive it home.

Then I crawled in and it was imminently apparent that my 6'4" Neanderthal body was not designed for the small confines of the coupe,the steering wheel was in a position that I was unable to get my leg high enough to press the clutch pedal and that's when reality sat in,I wasn't going to drive this car home. Find More Posts by Stingray Visit Longhorn Man's homepage! Find More Posts by cdowns. Visit shortymac83's homepage!

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That really helped! Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. Chopped and channeled refers to two different things, but are usually done together to create a specific look usually utilized by hot rodders. Here is a decent attempt at a Photoshop "chop job" pun intended , but it is a pretty good representation of a before and after of what it would look like:.

Channeling a vehicle where you cut out the floor pan of a vehicle and allow the frame to come up farther into the vehicle. The main purpose of a channel job is to allow the body of the car to sit closer to the ground without suspension travel.

This process was done before when there wasn't as many options or manufacturing techniques available to modify the suspension in vehicles. It is a lot less common today to see this kind of work done. It is very involved and requires a lot of welding skills to accomplish. The main reason someone would do either of these processes to a car is strictly for aesthetics. It's just the way the person wants a vehicle to look. Negative effects for chopping the top are head room for the driver and passengers.

To compensate, the seats can be lowered or lower seats added to accommodate. Doing this, though, makes it harder to see around the vehicle line of sight. In all things there is a trade off. As for channeling a vehicle, there needs to be extra attention give to clearance of the wheels to wheel wells as well as how far the front wheels turn. If not, rubbing will occur. In most of the older cars where this is applied, a stiffer suspension will probably be needed so as not to allow for the "boat" motion to occur.

Basically there is no vehicle requirements to perform a chop job. It can be done to any vehicle as long as the person doing it has the skills to make it happen. Does this mean it would look good on any vehicle The main thing you'd need to channel a vehicle is a frame separate from the body. Many cars today are unibody setups the car body acts as the frame , so don't have a typical frame.

In these cases, though, there usually are many options to lower the vehicle to the ride height which the owner would like. There is usually a specific look the owner is going for to recreate how it " used to be done " back in the old days.

This doesn't mean the work isn't done to other cars outside that realm, though. It doesn't look like the same car, but I assure you, it is. It is where part of the floor of the body shell is cut chopped and the slid over the chassis. So normally the whole body would sit on top of the chassis, it now fits around so the sides over lap the chassis rails.