{"id":1970,"date":"2010-11-17T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T23:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2010-11-19T08:26:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T23:56:37","slug":"rake-chop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"Rake chop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since i posted an update,<\/p>\n<p>Summer is slowly appearing down here in Adelaide Australia which means its time to rust off the beetle and start workign on it again. What i have been thinking from day 1 is to do a chop top. (so if your a purist stop reading now).<\/p>\n<p>Now most chops are equal front to back but i want to do a rake chop, i talked to a person on the internet and he said he raked it by just cutting the front and middle pillars then stretching the front and side pillars slightly to fit up. Anyway i decided i would photoshop this before i destroy one of my beetles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/old.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1982\" title=\"old\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/old-500x329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/old-500x329.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/old.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rakechop2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1980\" title=\"rakechop2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rakechop2-500x329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rakechop2-500x329.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rakechop2.jpg 581w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/img_3194.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1983\" title=\"img_3194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/img_3194-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/img_3194-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/img_3194-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rakechop1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1981\" title=\"rakechop1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rakechop1-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rakechop1-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rakechop1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ideas for chops:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volksrods.com\/id65.htm\">http:\/\/www.volksrods.com\/id65.htm<\/a> (Narrowed the body and didnt need to cut the roof up.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socalook.com\/chopping.html\">http:\/\/www.socalook.com\/chopping.html<\/a> (Classic cheaters sunroof way)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesamba.com\/vw\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=390897\">http:\/\/www.thesamba.com\/vw\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=390897<\/a> (Minor but nice)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a while since i posted an update, Summer is slowly appearing down here in Adelaide Australia which means its time to rust off the beetle and start workign on it again. What i have been thinking from day 1 is to do a chop top. (so if your a purist stop reading now). Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}