chopped '64 Miller Meteor

[60Crown]

Reserve met in less than 2 days. Should prove fun to follow. There are MANY pics in auction and I've included a couple already saved on laptop. Praise the Lowered!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290689169597+&lgeo=1&viewitem=&vectorid=229466

[pyro]

The interior looks like buttered ass, all messy.

[chestypuller]

i think its chopped to low. i would have went with a sock cad windshield instead of a hearse one, and then left the rear door at full heigth and raked it down like a wedge to the stock cad windshield with the original top, not that rag top looking thing.

[LMS]

I like the paint job, the side pipes, and the machine guns. The interior looks like crap and so does the roof. WTF wire mesh spread over a tube frame then covered in vinyl????. Personally I have never been a fan of chop tops and have seen very few of them that I thought really looked good, but that's just my opinion.

[staynedglass]

i think its chopped to low. i would have went with a sock cad windshield instead of a hearse one, and then left the rear door at full heigth and raked it down like a wedge to the stock cad windshield with the original top, not that rag top looking thing.

sound just like cargoyle
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[60Crown]

Execution and attention to detail aside, this is a viable solution to acquiring a 21' vintage coach with the roof already cut off.

Chesty, your suggestion involves monumental work restructuring not only roof but A, B, and C pillars, pie cutting D pillar...for a very nominal end result. There were 4 different height windshields including commercial glass used in '59-'60 GM. Even if staying with that style (passenger cars had moved onto straighter glass in '61) and using the lowest would result in a mere 2.5"+/- drop. Spread out over that longroof>>>>>not much!

I do think a canted roof would look bitchin' on a '65-'68 hearse, especially '67-'68 mimicking headlight stagger. Cargoyle's door window lines just don't look right.

[Beast Lee]

I've always been a fan of the "Carson" topped kustoms of the 40's & 50's...

[chestypuller]

sound just like cargoyle
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ya pretty much just like that. i think i will do that if i ever get a bad windshield since replacements are supposed to be hard to get i will just just the passanger car version like the one i have but shorter, then start cutting the rest to fit it.

Chesty, your suggestion involves monumental work restructuring not only roof but A, B, and C pillars, pie cutting D pillar...for a very nominal end result. There were 4 different height windshields including commercial glass used in '59-'60 GM. Even if staying with that style (passenger cars had moved onto straighter glass in '61) and using the lowest would result in a mere 2.5"+/- drop. Spread out over that longroof>>>>>not much!.

any idea where on the windshield its different size on my 64 between it and the 59 cad car windshield? might be able to use a car windshield and just fab a visor and filler plate if its just the top. or if its the bottom it could be a wiper cowl fab.

[60Crown]

Footprint of windshield base remains constant, as does top width. The difference in each model is in the length of A pillars, hence height.

I'll breakdown further in your '64 thread.

[mr x]

any idea where on the windshield its different size on my 64 between it and the 59 cad car windshield? might be able to use a car windshield and just fab a visor and filler plate if its just the top. or if its the bottom it could be a wiper cowl fab.[/QUOTE]

Ya know i have been thinking about that for a while now. There was a 59 MM on e-bay a little while ago that had a windshield like that . I wasn't sure if it was a visor or a filler plate. I thought it looked kinda bad ass myself.

[mr x]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R63u52amPNI

here is a u tube link . The hearse mentioned comes into full view at 2minuts 3 seconds in check it out.

[chestypuller]

ya that thing looks great! i might just make a custom visor for that look before i need a new windshield.

coolhears windshied.jpg