There has probably been more written about hacking tops than any other customizing technique. But as long as hot rodders continue to develop improved procedures for this time-honored modification, we’ll keep telling you about them. Which is why we were out in Pomona, California, talking to Bill Stewart, the metal marvel over at So-Cal Speed Shop. Bill had just finished carving 3 inches out of this ’32 five-window coupe and gave us the lowdown on a few of the tricks he used to do the job. Bill admits that his way is generally considered the hard way, but insists that the end result is much better. In this case the extra effort has paid off with a superior finished product with lines that look like they were created with the pencils of Henry Ford’s designers rather than the saw and welder of a metalman.
