To chop top, or not to chop top? That is a question hot rodders have been asking since the inception of the genre of car enthusiasm in the 1930s. Back then, hot rodders would do anything to gain more ...

One of the most popular body modifications, the chop top has been around for decades, even though the true origins of the design remain a mystery. No one is certain about the design's exact beginnings ...

There are nine of these chopped-top Lancia B20s in the world. One is for sale now. Or was a minute ago. That was Thornley Kelham’s first Outlaw B20. There were eight more, including the one you see ...

If historical practice teaches us anything it's that automakers got one thing terribly wrong: top heights. Don't take my word for it; leaf through a batch of old hot rodtype magazines and you'll see ...

No matter what you call it, lowering lids, cutting turrets or chopping tops is as fundamental to hot rodding as punching louvers, engine swapping and get ting rid of incidentals such as fenders, cowl ...