Chopped and Ready
by Lin Grosvenor
Title
Chopped and Ready
Artist
Lin Grosvenor
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While they were available, the Fords (like this), Plymouths & Chevys of the early 1930s became even more popular than the T-Buckets. They had more room, real doors, and could be had for a song.
Where legal (or sometimes where not), fenders were scrapped, the suspension lowered and sections removed from the cabin to produce the "Chopped & Channeled" street rod.
They cruised downtown and they lined up at the un-sanctioned 1/4 mile straights out past the drive-in, sometimes racing title-for-title for the brave, but usually for a tank of gas at thirty cents per gallon. The ones too far gone for a clean rebuild often wound up being ground down at the local 3/8th mile dirt oval on Saturday nights.
When the used, scrap yard and barn-find candidates ran out, enterprising businesses re-created them in metal and fiberglass, so that even today you could closely duplicate this original from a catalog
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April 20th, 2016
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