Ruined Regal

[pontiacgp]

If you look at the other picture it shows the front clip isn't sloped down

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[tc1959]

 

[lilbowtie]

There are many aspects to the classic car buffs this being one of them. No matter what you do to your car there are going to critics. Our cars cover anything from concourse cars to rat rods. I even get crap about mine being a race car. I defiantly don't like what some people do but they are the artist of their creation. We all seem to come together for cruises and I try to appreciate what people have done.

 

[popeye1978]

I think it's a very weird optical illusion, like a wide-angle camera lens? (Walleye-vision!) ... an alternate idea is it's rigged like the nose on the Concorde -- which would be lowered during take-off & landing so the crew had a better view -- so we're seeing both configurations 🙂

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

Cutting the roof won't cause any structural damage. T-tops only have a center channel which won't keep the car together if that was it's purpose. I think the rear fender openings were either damaged from the tires or the fenders were modified with a sledge hammer

That is why the T-top cars are weaker and flex worse than solid top cars. It is why they still had a center section and did not have the whole roof being removeable like the donk guy. However stock T-tops do not have extra stress induced by donk wheels. It is bad and unsafe engineering with that donk. The guy altered his car with whatever looks cool with zero regard for structural integrity of safety. It is a rolling death trap, only a matter of time till something fails and it crashes.

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

There are many aspects to the classic car buffs this being one of them. No matter what you do to your car there are going to critics. Our cars cover anything from concourse cars to rat rods. I even get crap about mine being a race car. I defiantly don't like what some people do but they are the artist of their creation. We all seem to come together for cruises and I try to appreciate what people have done.

Usually I don't care what people do to their cars, unless they hack up thier car into something that is unsafe. Raising a vehicle and cutting off its roof is not something you just do for the heck of it. Such major modifcations requires major rengineering of the vehicle. It requires knowledge, math, and even testing. True convertibles are built with extra reinforcement in key locations to offset the loss of the roof. It is like knocking down a wall in a house without caring if it is load bearing or not. It is simply irresponsible. it is cheaper and safer to just buy a convertible than to try to convert a hard top, it is not a DIY project unless you have a full body and fab shop like on TV.

 

[pencero]

The Houston rap scene is responsible for this trend - but just as it is getting 'played out' where this trend originated now finally everyone else wants to copy them. They have the climate to get away with this trend. 'when in Rome'... but anyone who would chop a top outside a desert climate is just plain stupid.

 

[pontiacgp]

That is why the T-top cars are weaker and flex worse than solid top cars. It is why they still had a center section and did not have the whole roof being removeable like the donk guy. However stock T-tops do not have extra stress induced by donk wheels. It is bad and unsafe engineering with that donk. The guy altered his car with whatever looks cool with zero regard for structural integrity of safety. It is a rolling death trap, only a matter of time till something fails and it crashes.

Can you post the structural engineering degree you have and post the link to the testing you have done.

 

[pencero]

Big Krit drives a g-body but kept original color code billet alloy 17 no chopped top. This is how we ride in the midwest.

 

[Clone TIE Pilot]

Can you post the structural engineering degree you have and post the link to the testing you have done.

If you show me yours first. All hardtops are designed to use the solid roof to reinforce the whole body and to keep it from buckling. G bodies were not all that rigid to begin with before you strat cutting major sections off and altering ride height. That donk is a ticking time bomb waiting to fail and kill someone. It is also reprehensible of you to condone such irresponsibility, you make us all look bad man.