roofchop
 

Hello everyone. My names Matt and I have just got hold of a couple of volvo amazons. One is a very rotten 121 with a b20 and overdrive box. The other car is a 122s 4 door. Its in better condition. Anyway the plan is to chop the roof 3" and make a cool leadsled more door. I hope this dosent offend some of you as these cars would have rotted away anyway. Heres a pic of the car before .
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMG_1278.jpg
Here is the two cars side by side and the chopping has started. Chopped into 6 pieces and now need to start chopping the white one to fill in the gaps. Everything all clamped up for mock up.
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMG_1786.jpg
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMG_1787.jpg
Will post up more pics of progress as it happens. Cheers Matt

That looks an interesting project you got there, Im looking forward to watching this space.
Keith...

^^^WHS!^^^ :thumbs_up:

An Amazon suits the lead-sled look quite well IMHO.

http://www.norheim-rodogcustom.no/up...ler/volvo2.JPG

I love sleds, would love one myself. I look forward to seeing this come on.

Great work so far!

looks good
How do you get over the front and rear glass and seals?
Russ

The normal aproch is to cut the front glass and slope the rear.

The front screen is going to be sandblasted down to fit hopefully. The rear will be made out of lexan. Unsure about side yet as quarter light has changed shape. May run with the doors frameless. And with no quarter lights. Before I get to that stage I need to sort the best doors and make them good for use. Heres some more pics.

Frame work is adjustable to hold edges of roof skins level.
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMG_1842.jpg

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMG_1845.jpg

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMG_1828.jpg

this is how the c post lined up after 1st cut.

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMG_1847.jpg

this is with cant rail section cut out of donar car and tacked in place.

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMG_1829.jpg

Made filler piece to extend roof forward.

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMG_1834.jpg

All welded up

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...0/IMG_1854.jpg

View from inside.

not bad
when i done mine i turned the wind up glass upside down and had the wind screen cut short then trimed with a 36 grit sander but be warned this is a good way but watch for the sides chipping out which is reduced when it is warm

Ahhhh, good man, always nice to see another one gettin chopped

Nice to see you are not going to rake the back window. To me a raked window does not look quite right.