Heck !!  Go ahead and bring the little rug Rat over. I'll just put him outside and let him graze and bring him in at night.  When that Boy gets a few years older you will find that your age double overnight . My hair turned gray and yours turned loose but look at this way you are just gaining face with the VW crowd. :lol:

JR, do you still want to borrow my saws-all to cut the top? Just kidding. Starting to look gooood.

There are some vehicles that just do not look good with a chopped top.  VW's are one of them in my opinion.

Most of the time, that's very true.  99.9% of the chopped top Bugs I've seen look like real hack jobs.  However, a guy I used to work with chopped the top on a 74 Beetle and put 2" wider fenders on it and when he got finished, it looked factory.  He didn't just cut the pillers and bend the top down like most of them are done, he cut the top into about 9 sections, and using an extra roof, he made the top wider and longer so it fit without bending the pillars in or back.  he even shortened the window frame section of the doors instead of cutting them off . . . he went as far as resizing the vent windows.  Like I said, it looked like it had left the factory that way.

Then, he lost interest in it and after it sat with 99% of the body work complete for over 10 years, he brought it to Bug-A-Palzua 4 or 5 years ago and sold it for next to nothing.  I have no idea who bought it and I haven't seen it since.  Hopefully it'll turn up at a show completed some day . . .

Years ago, Hot VWs actually had a tech article on how to properly chop a top on a beetle.  The cuts they made throughout the roof of that thing made the seems look like a patchwork quilt.   :shock:

The end result was pretty darned nice.

oops, double post

Sweet.....

I narrowed it 6".  I love the look but will know how it feels/steers once I drive it.