bobbed hard top?

REG535 · February 05, 2008, 08:19:33 PM

Does anyknow any info about bobbing an hard top on a truck? probally a dumb question, but has anyone done it, and if so any pics of this?

Cheesemaker · February 05, 2008, 09:05:12 PM

There are alot of people that have taken the first gen's and added a half cab to them. I wish I could remember who and posts. But you might have to search! Shouldn't to hard if ya got any fab and welding skills!

REG535 · February 05, 2008, 09:12:42 PM

I dont want that, i want to see if any has chopped the rear roof of an 2nd gen trucks top

and make the pillar shorter on each side so when you weld it up it slopes down

skipnrocks · February 05, 2008, 10:29:13 PM

Slopes down from front to back? Is this an astetic project or is there a fxn to it? Not knockin, just wonderin!

yota_krawler · February 05, 2008, 10:30:56 PM

maybe i am dumb cause i dont get it

jimbo74 · February 05, 2008, 10:32:30 PM

are you talking about sectioning the pillar like they do to hotrods so there is a chopped look?

skipnrocks · February 05, 2008, 10:37:20 PM

Quote from: Yota_Krawler on February 05, 2008, 10:30:56 PM
maybe i am dumb

Thats besides the point LOL JK

I dont get it either, I have seen them sectioned up front to give them a choped stealthy look but never the rear.

REG535 · February 06, 2008, 07:38:01 AM

Ya sectioning the pillar like they do on hotrods but not the front, the back, past the x-cab window, and on the back of the cab the pillar by the rear window on each side bobbed a couple of inches. so when you re-weld it back together the rear roof and pillars are sitting lower than normal.
I know this is hard to explain lol. But maybe i will post a pic of what i mean in a little bit.

Doof · February 06, 2008, 07:41:40 AM

i dont think anybody on here has done it. just get your cutting torch, section and reweld it. sounds like you have all the steps you need and dont need much advice. just measure four times and cut once

$Beer Chug\'n$

NorCalToy · February 06, 2008, 09:37:00 PM

like a chopped top?

REG535 · February 06, 2008, 09:43:12 PM

Yes like a chopped top but the rear chopped so when you look it at it slopes down.

i can get started if i had tools and well a place or shop to work in.

Shoyrtt · February 06, 2008, 09:44:13 PM

Quote from: NorCalToy on February 06, 2008, 09:37:00 PM
like a chopped top?

If so, Chopperman built a bad

Runner a few years ago that is the only example I know of:

Doof · February 07, 2008, 08:47:28 AM

those buggys are bad ass

twistedtoy92 · February 07, 2008, 10:23:58 AM

Quote from: sillywilly on February 07, 2008, 08:47:28 AM
those buggys are bad ass

X2

NorCalToy · February 07, 2008, 04:34:47 PM

so wat you wana do is chop only the back pillars and keep the fronts at stock heigth?

REG535 · February 07, 2008, 08:10:51 PM

THat is correct

no one has done this and i cannot believe that lol. But i think it would be intersting enough and fun to do if not hard enough as it already is haha.

skipnrocks · February 07, 2008, 08:22:28 PM

Have you seen it done? Have you searched the web for it? I would like to see some pics too...

NorCalToy · February 07, 2008, 08:24:06 PM

i imagine it looking like a short toyota magnum.

skipnrocks · February 07, 2008, 08:39:42 PM

Oh yea I guess I could see that.

NorCalToy · February 07, 2008, 08:44:12 PM

thats how i can imagine it, except really short. that might look pretty cool. itd take some work, but you have a real custom truck.

werty · February 07, 2008, 09:36:51 PM

like this?

werty · February 07, 2008, 09:39:15 PM

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skipnrocks · February 07, 2008, 09:41:42 PM

That looks like a normal hard top? I dont see any lowering out back.

NorCalToy · February 07, 2008, 09:51:39 PM

he wants to cut and shorten the rear pillars but still leave it fully enclosed, i think. like the way a magnums roof slants and lowers at the rear, like that.

NorCalToy · February 07, 2008, 09:55:47 PM

so heres a pic of a magnum, to show how the back sits lower at the roofline than the front does, if i understand correctly this is wht he watns.

werty · February 07, 2008, 10:18:56 PM

let me re fraz that are you short cause I'm 5'10'' and my head is 4 inches from the roof.

REG535 · February 08, 2008, 07:53:37 AM

Yes just like that NorCalToy and slipnrocks, have the idea

the rear would slant like that in the magnum, no am not short i dont think it would matter that much since you sit in the front and the x-cab that would be shorter or the rear is where you put stuff anyhow.
Thanks for the help.

I wish i could get it done lol.

skipnrocks · February 08, 2008, 09:44:32 AM

why cant ya do it?

NorCalToy · February 08, 2008, 05:58:27 PM

Quote from: skipnrocks on February 08, 2008, 09:44:32 AM
why cant ya do it?

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that would be sick, if you do it, are you gonna pit a bend in the roof, or make a clean slant down? basically is there going to be a bend in the roof above the headrest where it goes from flat to angled down, or will it be angled from the very front?

REG535 · February 08, 2008, 07:49:31 PM

Am not sure on if it would be bent or not, hopefully it would be a clean slant down

I cannot start on it or work on it yet, becasue i dont have a place to do it, and am in college still dang it lol. Plus my toy is in colorado, am in wyoming

so until then

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