Anyone Considering a Chop?

[Sgt Badlands]

Don’t do it to a cyber orange bronco. That’s criminal

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[604Bronco]

Nah, it ain't gonna look pretty.

I thought that was the clogged gutters on your house for a second... Yikes!

 

[Beach_Bum]

Not really chopped, though? Isn't that more considered bagged/slammed?

There was a SEMA '21 Build by AccuAir suspension that replaces the Sasquatch spring with an integrated air suspension on top of the Bilstein shock minus the spring.

 

[2door]

I thought that was the clogged gutters on your house for a second... Yikes!

 

[DarthLincoln]

Instead of chopping the roof height (visibility out the windshield is already poor), how about chop it all off after the windshield and make a 6G version of the Bronco Roadster?

 

[VAtruck]

I'm undecided. I think it would help me visualize it better if you take a picture from the other side, centered on that beautiful bull nose Bronco

HaHa, you caught that. The bullnose is my work truck. I've had the old girl since 1996. She's a 1986 3/4 ton 2WD Lariat XLT with the 351 four barrel - last year before they went to that stupid serpentine belt. The truck is coming up on 400,000 miles. Replaced the motor twice with Ford reman long blocks, rebuilt the FMX once about 50K miles ago. Built Ford tough.

 

[Heritage Bruce]

Chop Chop

 

[VAtruck]

Serious chop

 

[CV428]

I'm 6'1" and already wail my head into the door frame when getting in and out of my Bronco.

My head pushes the headliner up in the '69 Mustang. I have to slouch forward to actually fit in that car, and I already installed seat track extensions that supposedly help. I swear they designed 1st gen Mustangs for midgets with elongated legs. You need long legs and a tiny torso to fit properly.

 

[zuke]

I can see a roof chop having some practical application for an Overlander build (Get all that gear on the roof to a lower point for the COG, and more accessible from the ground) or for a DD in an urban environment (Parking Garage life).

In those cases a chop could be paired with a lift to maintain a reasonable roof line.

As an aesthetic modification though, the trade offs wouldn't be worth it IMHO.

 

[Bigred86]

I am not considering a chop as a drive a Bronco and not a lead sled or a redneck backyard creation that we all have seen in the Walmart parking lot lol.

 

[Spin’s2022]

Strangely, I think the Foose fantasy just might work -- if you don't lower it -- as a pavement princess/surfer dude/beach/show car. Sure, go with exotic chromed-up wheels, but keep them 37-inch. The challenge would be to devise a surfboard roofrack that is aesthetically and aerodynamically compatible with the revised lines, carry them topside and not to have them sticking out the back like lumber leaving Home Depot.

But as an off-roader? Nawwwww...

 

[Spin’s2022]

Strangely, I think the Foose fantasy just might work -- if you don't lower it -- as a pavement princess/surfer dude/beach/show car. Sure, go with exotic chromed-up wheels, but keep them 37-inch. The challenge would be to devise a surfboard roofrack that is aesthetically and aerodynamically compatible with the revised lines, carry them topside and not to have them sticking out the back like lumber leaving Home Depot.

But as an off-roader? Nawwwww...

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