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In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  Chopped, channeled & chromed - October 2000 Solidarity
Chopped, channeled and chromed - October 2000 Solidarity
They had fun, fun, fun at Region 1’s first annual car show August 13 as UAW members showed off their hot rods and custom cars.
Elvis was there, car owners vied for awards, and raffles helped to raise money for the Michigan Vietnam Veterans Monument, which will be built in Lansing, Mich.
www.uaw.org /solidarity/00/1000/union03.html   (60 words)

  
 Fitting in a Model A question... - THE H.A.M.B.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
I've never actually sat in a chopped and channeled model A, but from what I gather (and have seen) it's a pretty tight squeeze...
I am VERY comfortable (5' 10") in my chopped and channeled 31 coupe, so there may be hope for you.
I believe it was chopped 3-4 and channeled the same.
www.jalopyjournal.com /forum/showthread.php?t=39393   (1150 words)

  
 Burnt Latke - pacific grip - Combustion Launchers - Spud Guns
Channel the center of the T fitting to allow a 2" pipe to pass snugly through.
Channeling a T fitting makes a mess, luckily PVC dust falls straight down.
The collar is made from two chopped and channeled 1.5"x2" fittings.
www.burntlatke.com /pacific.html   (481 words)

  
 The Fred Steele Channeled Roadster
Not only did he have the coolest chopped and channeled '32 roadster around, running a full-house, four-carb flathead when most guys thought two 97s were plenty, but he went on to be a member of the famed L.A. Roadsters.
The process was "relatively" easy--cut out the floor, drop the body, fashion a floorpan and weld it all back together--and two guys who were handy with a torch could do it in a backyard.
Chopped 6 inches, with a white roof like the recently restored Chrisman Tudor, Fred's car was completed in 1958; it's never been in a magazine.
www.streetrodderweb.com /milestones/0202sr_miles   (4321 words)

  
 Vehicle of the Week Archives - Ford Forty-Nine Concept & 1949 Ford
The new Ford Forty-Nine concept is designed to take America on a "sentimental drag-race" down memory lane and underscore Ford's commitment to designing excitement into its new cars coming down the road.
The Forty-Nine concept harkens back to the romance of a Friday night at the drive-in, listening to rock-and-roll and cruising "the strip" in a chopped and channeled custom car.
The 1949-51 Ford coupes were considered some of the most desirable cars to chop and channel.
www.theautochannel.com /mania/industry/votw/ford_49/ford_492.htm   (906 words)

  
 Amulets
Cayce taught that crystals possessed an energy within themselves that could be transmitted to people and be of great assistance in meditation, healing, and the achievement of higher levels of consciousness.
New Age believers in crystal power were told by a number of channelers that all people had within themselves a Higher Self that was the ultimate expression of their personality.
According to New Age channeling, the act of holding one's crystal in the left hand will stimulate the creative, intuitive process in the right brain hemisphere.
www.unexplainedstuff.com /Objects-of-Mystery-and-Power/Amulets.html   (8803 words)

  
 LayItLow.com Forums -> Custom Body Drops for trucks!
That's what they mean, when they say like " She was chopped and channeled "....
they mean to channel the body to where it sit's down over the frame lower.
Ok we were talking about channeling and sectioning, and all that, but what about where ya take some outta the nose,...cut a section out, and make her slope down so nicely!
www.layitlow.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=66396   (1146 words)

  
 Hot-Rod light pictures from www.mmci.us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A 3 window Blown Ford Coupe and a '32 "chopped and channeled" two door Ford Sedan sit in front of this illustrated 50's era filling station.
A radically chopped '49 Merc and '32 full fendered Ford Coupe pull into fill up at the "Flying A" gas station in Meteor City, AZ.
Classic Cars from the 50's including an early model Corvette and an old style Woody station wagon sit parked in front of an original old style amusement park.
www.mmci.us /light_pictures/hotrod.htm   (394 words)

  
 Traditional Hotrod Teeshirts from Hotrodteez
This time as a chopped and channeled 1940's style traditional hotrod.
This channeled Model A coupe runs a 6 carb SBC and a heavily kicked up chassis.
This car was chopped, channeled and ran an 1172 side valve engine from a 100E.
www.hotrodteez.com   (1013 words)

  
 Shop A&E and The History Channel : The Dream Machines: Hot Rods DVD
Chopped and channeled, tricked-out and hopped-up, hot rods have a unique appeal.
The very first ones were built in the 1930s by California kids eager to test out their racing skills on the state's dry lakebeds.
Channel Classroom, and their respective logos are trademarks of AandE Television Networks.
store.aetv.com /html/product/index.jhtml?id=72316   (263 words)

  
 Vintage Ford Pickup
Of all the cars on display, a little red chopped and channeled '34 Ford pickup was my favorite.
Six-fifty or not, that was a lot of bread for an old Ford at the time, so Paul called on one of his older brothers to accompany him for an inspection.
Understandably, "sage" older brothers don't cotton to 32-year-old Fords--especially straight-piped, chopped, and channeled ones.
www.streetrodderweb.com /features/0402sr_brewer   (1277 words)

  
 Vintage Hot Wheels
It was then unveiled in their home town during the Detroit Autorama in 1967, where it won the coveted Riddler Award.
The Deora is based on the mid-engined Dodge D-100 which was chopped, sectioned, and channeled to create the fully functional, futuristic pickup.
This chopped and channeled '32 Ford sedan features a cantilevered roof and a "floating" windshield.
www.jhudgins.com /hotwheels/pictures/vintage   (941 words)

  
 Two Metal Finished Chevy C-10 Feature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Bob has had customer trucks lined up out the door of Grant Kustoms pretty much ever since and is setting the bar higher with each truck he gets his head around and hands on.
There is the '67 Chevy crew cab dually that was leaps and bounds cleaner than what the coach companies ever produced, along with chopped and channeled '67 Suburban with handmade Camaro-style bumperettes.
chopped and channeled by IF Customs, completely reskinned with new sheetmetal, unibody conversion, door edges reworked to appear slanted
www.classictrucksweb.com /features/0601cl_67chev   (701 words)

  
 Pierson Bros. Coupe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It's a scenario retold many times, but in immediate post-World War II California there were hundreds, maybe thousands, of ex-servicemen, pockets loaded down with demob money, looking for a little excitement.
Some found it behind the wheel of a chopped and channeled Ford flashing across the dry lake beds at record speeds.
Two such young guys were Bob and Dick Pierson and together with their friend, Bobby Meeks, they would turn this world of dusty race cars on its head.
www.so-calspeedshop.com /projectcars/pierson/pierson.html   (637 words)

  
 Legends Of The Salt, Part I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
By chopping, channeling, and sectioning the bodies, closed cars could be made more wind-efficient than the favored roadsters.
The greater the chop, the lower the silhouette.
In a 1983 The 12port News article, the late Mark Dees wrote that Alex Xydias bought the chopped and channeled ’34 coupe Dees crewed on at Bonneville in 1951.
www.rodandcustommagazine.com /thehistoryof/85458   (3019 words)

  
 Bits 'n Pieces
I can personally testify to the fact that being in high school in the 1950s was all it's been cracked up to be - and more!
Souped-up hot rods, dual exhausts, cow catchers, chopped and channeled Ford convertibles, necker's knobs, watching the submarine races, study hall, and sock hopsÂ… those were the days.
I saw the advent of television (those little screens augmented with a huge magnifying glass) and the ballpoint pen.
www.valarieclark.com /about.php   (307 words)

  
 Orange Crate
The ORANGE CRATE is built around a blown 1960 Olds engine, and is mounted on an all-chrome, hand-crafted tubular frame.
Bob used the popular "deuce" body, chopped and channeled, with re-shaped and molded rear fenders, and provided the final imaginative touch when he hinged the body at the back for display and maintenance purposes.
The old saying, "If it don't go - - chrome it," was laid to rest by the ORANGE CRATE which, chromed, polished and plated in every possible place, turned 140 mph on the strip with an E.T. of 10.61.
www.showrods.com /showrod_pages/orange_crate.html   (220 words)

  
 Americruise to Lincoln, Nebraska
How wicked is Dennis Heindel's channeled Model A? With six carbs atop the blower, cheater slicks, and a trunk full o' louvers, we'd say it's off the scale.
It's chopped 5 inches in front and 6 in back, channeled 4 inches, and has tons of hand-built details.
His chopped '51 Ford sedan was finished a week before the event.
www.rodandcustommagazine.com /eventcoverage/135_0401_mid   (1622 words)

  
 NASCAR MODELS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Johnson had retired as a driver but cut a deal with NASCAR to build a car for Fred Lorenzen to drive in the upcoming Dixie 400.
He had protested in the past about how all of the Mopars had been chopped and channeled to alter their appearance for better streamlining.
Indeed, all of the cars were starting to look like pyramids when you saw them from the front.
sites.nexusisp.com /lgsmirle/cp26.htm   (423 words)

  
 Cruisin' Utah, 1999 (1930-1939)
A chopped and channeled 35 Chevy 2dr sedan.
This car was built by the current owner, Glen Cox in 1950...he got it from his father who bought it in 1939.
This one has a radically chopped Carson-style top.
www.chevyasylum.com /cruisin/cruisin99/cruisin30.html   (159 words)

  
 The Lordz of Kuztomz
Grease up your hair, box of cigarettes in your t-shirt sleeve, rolled up jeans, and some rock/roll oldies.
Take a drive down the boulevard in your chopped and channeled ‘49 Merc.
We do everything from chop tops and full body modifications, custom skirts and grills to hydraulic and air ride suspensions.
www.lordzofkustomz.com   (76 words)

  
 "Traditional" Death Rods ?.... - THE H.A.M.B.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
...a few weeks back, someone mentioned that todays, "death rods", are not accurate copies of the cars they're supposed to emulate, because, cars back then were not chopped and channeled to death, and laying on the ground,....look what I found....
True, I noticed that as well going throught a lot of old magazines, same thing that is going on now went on then as well.
Not chopped but heavily channeled and this car was DROVE on the street everyday when it was first built.
www.jalopyjournal.com /forum/showthread.php?t=34804   (766 words)

  
 DRIVE! Online - Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Article Archives
It’s low and sleek, but the cab is a little small for me. It looks like a chopped and channeled ‘54 Chevy pickup.
The top seems to fold under the pickup bed, and the truck comes with a smallblock mill.
Looks like the design folks started with a chopped and channeled ‘54 pickup, and went on from there.
www.driveonline.com /html/rotharchive_138.html   (440 words)

  
 Prick Magazine - Phat Rides
Keep an eye out for them at the annual Starlight Drive-In Invasion "Dixie Pride" car show over Labor Day weekend in September.
Chopped and channeled with a 409 Buick nailhead engine
Car lingo defined: Chopped and Channeled — to cut height off the roof and replace floorboard of body with a channeled floorboard to make the body sit lower on the frame.
www.prickmag.net /phatrides_march05.html   (242 words)

  
 Joyrides -- Rare '32 Duesenberg is a doozy
Automotive collector and restorer Ed Lucas bought his first car when he was 14 and living in Port Huron.
He picked up a 1931 Chevy, chopped and channeled it, and put a Cadillac engine under the hood.
Lucas sold the five-window coupe a couple of years later and used the proceeds to buy a '39 Buick and a '32 DeSoto convertible.
info.detnews.com /joyrides/mywheels.cfm?id=120   (533 words)

  
 ratrod
The tires and wheels are definately all new, however, coming in their own bag stamped "made in China."
Hard core Rat Rods are ususally chopped, channeled, and lowered to an extreme; often they have only a few inches of ground clearance.
In fact, I was thinking of doing a '32 Rat style, lowered, chopped, and channeled, with a big V-8, and red primer...
www.internetmodeler.com /2002/october/automotive/ratrod.htm   (2323 words)

  
 Lets see some vintage hot rod trucks! - THE H.A.M.B.
Love to see some more pics, esp. of the cab an the chop.
Not chopped, still have the fenders, but was build in the late 60's so the vintage part is correct.
The Cab is channeled 6” over the frame....parallel leaf spring set up front and the two link with coil springs in the rear
www.jalopyjournal.com /forum/showthread.php?t=53647   (1019 words)

  
 Aviation Airshow Air Race Photography Discussion - Reply to Topic
It's a '65 Ford body chopped and channeled over a Chevrolet frame.
There is a mid-sixties Chevy grill in the front and a Chevy tailgate insert in the Ford tailgate...very decieving!
I made it home ok with no problems at all in the chopped and channeled '65 Ford pickup (probably because it's all Chevy underneath including the frame) LOL!
www.aafo.com /hangartalk/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=935   (1085 words)

  
 1940 Ford Deluxe for sale
When you look at this car, WOW is the only thing you can say.
It has a 3 inch chop, 3 inch section and 2 inch channel.
This car was built in the early 80's and the body work has held up excellent!
images.webkrafters.com /trinity/slideshow18145/40ford18145.html   (116 words)

  
 Dive Bar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Well, run down to your local hobby shop and pick up a model kit, and bring it to Zeitgeist, one of San Francisco's best gear-head bars.
Build that Chopped and Channeled '51 Merc that you've always wanted but couldn't afford to insure, all at 1/24 scale.
And since there will be plenty of beer at hand, you can undertake some radical modifications that most model-builders wouldn't consider, like twin Hemi-engined VW bugs, or a Cadillac hearse with tank treads.
www.parody.org /dive-bar/events/2001.10.09.html   (185 words)

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