newb with CC chop top question...

[Ray-Dean]

I'm starting the build of a Comp. Coupe using a '74 VW Karmann Ghia. Yes they have a rear seat that holds two full sized adults. Anyway, about the chop top, I know the min. windshield height part, and that rake chops are not allowed, but I was told that I can relocate the roof further back when I chop it (instead of lengthening it like a normal hot rod chop) and just lay the windshield back more. Sumner also said that there is a max angle that the windshield can be laid back. I have read and reread, but I can not find this angle anywhere.

Can some one help shed light on this, or point me to the right place in the rules? Maybe I'm just overlooking it.


Thanks.

[Sumner]

I'm starting the build of a Comp. Coupe using a '74 VW Karmann Ghia. Yes they have a rear seat that holds two full sized adults. Anyway, about the chop top, I know the min. windshield height part, and that rake chops are not allowed, but I was told that I can relocate the roof further back when I chop it (instead of lengthening it like a normal hot rod chop) and just lay the windshield back more. Sumner also said that there is a max angle that the windshield can be laid back. I have read and reread, but I can not find this angle anywhere.

Can some one help shed light on this, or point me to the right place in the rules? Maybe I'm just overlooking it.


Thanks.

It is under pre-'49 Altered Coupes, so I don't know it it applies to CC's.  CC's might not have a minimum angle just the 5 inch minimum height??

Dan??

c ya,

Sum

[Ray-Dean]

Ah. Ok, wasn't looking there.

[Unkl Ian]

Competition Coupe: 
Front and rear chop must be equal.
Minimum Windshield height 5".
Streamlining ahead of and including the cowl permitted.

Altered Coupe:
pre '49 bodies may be chopped.
Front and rear chop must be equal.
Minimum windshield height 6",with maximum length 7"
from the base of the windshield at the center of the car.
Streamlining not permitted.


If anything has changed recently,or is about to change,
maybe someone will point us in the right direction.

[Unkl Ian]

If the "front and rear chop must be equal",then the angle
between the body and roof would remain the same as stock.

BUT...

on the popular '53 Studebakers,the stock roof slopes down at the back,
but many of the chopped Studes in /CC the roof is flatter.Which means
the front was chopped more than the back.



How are the rules actually interpreted ?

[Ray-Dean]

This might, or might not, help. This is the factory metric measurments. (kind of hard to read due to size)



and here is the actual car...

[Stainless1]

RD, that looks like a great project, although the car looks like it might have spent time on the salt already, just kidding....
Good luck with the project

[Ray-Dean]

RD, that looks like a great project, although the car looks like it might have spent time on the salt already, just kidding....
Good luck with the project

Ha Ha Ha. Nope. I got it 'cause the previous owner stripped it in his driveway and his local home owners "yeahoos" had a fit and got it towed off. He never paid the fines, and I bought it for the cost of the tow bill... $100.00. It is complete, and ran at the time I got it.