TheSamba.com :: View topic - Chop Top Pick-up Build

Sun Dec 02, 2012 10:11 pm

This is a $100 car I bought for my son at a Farmington show. Shortly realizing it was more work then we wanted for his car. I decided to build me a toy.

As it was when we bought it on Sunday

What we got done 2 days after buying it

When we decided to chop it

4'' chop

Extra cab window

Bus rear roof

More pics coming soon

Sun Dec 02, 2012 10:13 pm

Dude that is cool.

Sun Dec 02, 2012 10:17 pm

Thanks, it's a work in progress.

Sun Dec 02, 2012 10:34 pm

8) 8) 8)

Mon Dec 03, 2012 2:57 pm

Pretty neat project. I expect your son will wnat to trade you when its done. I saw that car at farmington

Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:06 pm

Oh.... I like different...... keep it coming.... :popcorn:

Chop top.... be sure to check in here...

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=526316

Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:21 pm

This is my project, so getting time to work on it doesnt come often. I have 9 vw's in my driveway right now and I own one of them. Customers come first. Looks like my son is going to end up with a slammed VW Thing as his first car.

Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:36 pm

Oh hell, that is more than a traditional chop top....you caught my interest! Looks like it should turn out nice....keep the pics coming!

Tue Dec 04, 2012 8:13 am

Very cool project!
Are the donor parts of the roof from a bus?

Tue Dec 04, 2012 8:58 am

The rear roof section is a split bus roof. I had to take 10 1/4'' out of the center of the bus roof. The body line in the roof of a bug is not in the roof of a bus, so I have started dollying the body line into the bus roof. I am going to fade the body line out over top the quarter windows. The drip rail is considerably different as well. These too will be dollied into shape. The rear window will be a bus rear hatch cut down to size. The bed will be a model A style truck bed. Engine and trans will be in the truck bed. I have yet to decide on building a full tube chassis or going back to a bug chassis. It really comes down to a time thing. I want to build a tube chassis, the future wife says she wants me to have it done for our wedding in Oct 2013. BTW all VW theme wedding.

Thu Dec 13, 2012 6:39 am

Cool project! I'm in NC too, and I was also at the farmington show. Some great racing. I picked up a few things for my 73. Are you going to the show at the fairgrounds in Febuary?

Thu Sep 19, 2013 6:55 pm

amazing, got any more pics? i'm working on a "flat top" rat rod using a bus roof line. looks like u used a bus rear clip on the back of your cab?

Tue Dec 10, 2013 7:34 am

Haven't had much time to work on it.

Tue Dec 10, 2013 8:51 am

Well, it looks like you've been putting the truck on the back burner. Did the future wife put the wedding on the back burner too? I was expecting this to be a sort of centerpiece to it! :D

:popcorn:

Tue Dec 10, 2013 10:01 am

Subscribed! :D
You still have time to go mid-engine with it. Rear tires and the wheels are perfect.

Tue Dec 10, 2013 10:13 am

Please, please, please go with a type 3 cooling setup on this so you can run a real pickup bed in it. I hate those pickup conversions with a wimply little storage space that is mostly taken up by a spun aluminum gas tank, and the fan shroud sticking through the bed.

Tue Dec 10, 2013 12:06 pm

Everett's Air Cooled wrote: The rear roof section is a split bus roof. I had to take 10 1/4'' out of the center of the bus roof. The body line in the roof of a bug is not in the roof of a bus, so I have started dollying the body line into the bus roof. I am going to fade the body line out over top the quarter windows. The drip rail is considerably different as well. These too will be dollied into shape. The rear window will be a bus rear hatch cut down to size. The bed will be a model A style truck bed. Engine and trans will be in the truck bed. I have yet to decide on building a full tube chassis or going back to a bug chassis. It really comes down to a time thing. I want to build a tube chassis, the future wife says she wants me to have it done for our wedding in Oct 2013. BTW all VW theme wedding.

Would be very cool if that rear hatch opened up to the inside of the bug! 8)

Tue Dec 10, 2013 12:13 pm

Bashr52 wrote: Please, please, please go with a type 3 cooling setup on this so you can run a real pickup bed in it. I hate those pickup conversions with a wimply little storage space that is mostly taken up by a spun aluminum gas tank, and the fan shroud sticking through the bed.
I was thinking Type III too.

Tue Dec 10, 2013 1:02 pm

That is an awesome build, I'll be following this one. :popcorn:

Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:54 pm

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