That's a very considerate, absolutely gorgeous AND also, a SAFE way to chop a roof to keep people in one piece should the worst happen!! Chops rarely have all three!
That's a nice car. I help my dad work on his 63 Cadillac Coup De Vill which was his baby back in latter 60s. He bought it with a wrecked front noise. I helped him rebuild it. When I went for my driver's license he threw me his car keys to take my test with it. I was more scared of damaging his baby than having the inspector in the car. After the test all the inspector said was, nice car! I did pass the test but, what a boat to parallel park and do a 3 point turn in. I pushed on the brakes, I almost went through the windshield. I was not used to power stearing, power brakes everything had power, this was in the early 70s. I was used to driving a 3 speed stick 62 Chevy wagon it was a big difference. I will never forget how that car rides. It was so smooth. Thanks for the memories.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏…. I already read the other comments…. All i got is “ by da jeezus ya did some job”…. Or to translate from Newfinese to English..” Well done sir”…
Takes a man that doesn't like chops to do it right. People who love to chop cars will go nuts and they stop seeing the trees for the forest. Most of those cars end up looking cartoonish. IMO, best chops are the chops that emphasize the line of the car. Like Chip Foose or not, his saying "best mods are those you stop to look what the hell is wrong with the car but can't figure it out at first" is true.
Fantastic job on the 63 Caddie. Love your work Fitzee! I use to travel Newfoundland extensively years ago as a bakery technication setting up bakeries from one end of the province to the other. I'm from Nova Scotia and thought we offered great hospitality but after working in Newfoundland it was above and beyond. It was an insult if I was working there and never went back home for lunch or dinner when offered from the people I worked with. Newfoundlanders were the most genuine and down to earth people I've ever meet with the greatest since of humor I've ever seen. I've kissed my cod and consider I'm part Newfoundfize now. LOL I hope I can return some day and believe everyone should visit there just to see how we are suppose to treat each other. Every time I watch your videos It brings such great memories flowing back especially when your touring through places like Signal Hill. Thank you so much for putting a smile on my face and I sure will continue watching.
Good afternoon Fitzee, looks great I do like the proportions you maintained. The location of the back window is factory and maintains the correct look. Thanks for a great video. Lots of education. Take care and good luck.
Yeah man, that is some amazing workmanship! The planning aspect of where to cut, what to cut, and what not to cut has to be from experience. I can't think how you would know what to expect after you make the cuts and remove the two inches, lower the roof down and see how much narrower the roof is now, compared to the body of the car. This is why you see cars that have been chopped and look good at the car shows but you never see the thousands of cars that have been chopped and turned out being an eye sore. You have to start somewhere so I think before I would ever attempt doing it I would try to get a car out of a wrecking yard or off a farmers lot before I destroy something useful. The imagination, before it's attempted, to know how the car would look after it's chopped, that's the magic part. You know there are some cars that would be a mistake to chop because none of the body would blend in and flow no matter how good the quality of the job was done. I'm pretty sure these days you could possibly take several pictures of a car and do some computer magic and see how it looks before you start. You know the 1970's Cuda/Challenger design looks great, but I remember when it showed up at the dealerships, I always thought the roof and the body of the car were designed by two different groups. Something about it looks like the roof is just set on top and attached to the body even though the combination looks so damn good. Thank you once again Frizee! Great video!
I'm also from north carolina great to see others around here watch fitzees videos I love his videos I am now getting back into this as it was only a hobby my whole with years off raising kids I'm now beginning to enjoy this again fitzee has made things a lot simpler and easier to do I look forward to his videos and this chop is the way it should have been built great job
Fitzee, An absolutely flawless top chop. You have made the car look 100% better than factory. 2 Thumbs up. Your gifts were a great add on to the video. Stay Real.
Nice chop job! May have suggested this be for but a old steering wheel will double the control of that bead roller. Best modification I ever done to mine!!!
Man Fitzee!! Another amazing video. You have inspired me to play around w the lines on my 65 Malibu 4 door wagon. Don't know if I'll actually chop it but......if I do it'll be just a little. I think a couple of inches would look good.
Thanks Fitzee, you are a craftsman. I just love getting inspiration from your videos as I do from Bad Chad as well. You both work in entirely diffetent ways and so much can be learnt and it's so interesting.
Your metal fabrication skills never seize to amaze me. Your preplanning and execution are top shelf. Have watched other utube metal fab videos but find they should be watching your video before they do theirs. Looking fwd to watching how you motorised the bead roller, have a similar one that I would like to do it to. Take care Tony
Very impressive how you did this, another great educational video. i was going to ask you about cuttin n buttin this, but I just observed. Thanks again.
since watching You ive built a small metal break and welder cart out of old angle iron , love your videos ive learned so much! Ive also replaced my rusted out dash on my 70 Nova and some patch panels, Thank You for the awesome tips!
Very nice explaining reason for the chopped top, nice clean work and really came out looking good as I do not like chopped tops but this one is different for the reasons you gave. Car now has better looking lines than the origional. NUFF SAID Great video
Back in the late 40's a good friend of my dad's was given a perfectly good car. And the friend decided that he and dad would chop the top. Dad said it came out well, but when they found out what the custom glass was going to cost the project was abandoned. Dad's friend knew where the car was and I always wanted to see it but the friend would never tell me nor show me the old car. Anyway that Caddie came out nice! But what doesn't when it's in the hands of a genius sheet metal worker.
Fitzee have you ever thought about doing illustrated books on your techniques for the beginners to the more advanced if you do I'll personally buy them
I still have a few Peterson (50's?) body books from when they were still actually worth more than eye candy and arsewipe .. but yeah - an updated Fitzee volume? You bet I'd buy one too .. but sadly, I suspect the bean counters looking at the man bun masses leasing Prii (Apparently Toyota's official plural) every four years would never see the lolly sufficient in their minds to go for it. All is not lost however .. Here we be together, supporting our man on the rock. If not directly monetarily, tweaking that UA-cam algo with a love. The 15 people who disliked this will soon expire under a pickup truck supported by milk crates and bumper jacks. But there are no "How to" books .. or channels. Or rather no magic read (or watch) this and be an expert in thirty days, money back guarantee. There is a lot of blood and sweat and .. yes - past failure, in these videos that make it look that easy. Fitzee had to learn this too. What you take away from this, is that it CAN be done by mere mortals with a 120 Volt Canajun Tire rig. Try, do, frig it up, burn through, try again, and never ever give up. No radioactive spiders required. A bit of learnin' and lot of tenacity. This channel has not actually improved my skills per se, that's a personal issue .. but rather given me the balls to move out of my comfort zone and cut into what was once scary. So although I'd expect any subscriber to this channel WOULD buy a Fitzee book .. Again, I myself certainly would - The actual purpose of owning such would be less technically informative than post it on the wall inspirational. So whatever you're burning on Gary .. go for it!
That was a very interesting detailed look at how you did that chop. It was certainly complex with all the work involved, but it came out looking great and well proportioned and well shaped. Sloping the roof more to the front was a really good move, as it looks a lot better than the original with the roof sloping to the back.
Very high level craftsmanship and understanding going on there. Very subtle and classy look. I think a lot of pros could learn a few things on this one. Should go to every length to not allow twisting parts to cause headaches later I see.
That's a very considerate, absolutely gorgeous AND also, a SAFE way to chop a roof to keep people in one piece should the worst happen!! Chops rarely have all three!
Really, really impressive. The engineering on the chop was spot on. This is now a 1 off piece of art.
Fitzee's natural talent mixed with sweat alone makes results far better than an entire team of today's "" fabricators""
Had I never seen a 63 Cadillac, I would've thought that roof was factory! You Sir are an artist!
That's a nice car. I help my dad work on his 63 Cadillac Coup De Vill which was his baby back in latter 60s. He bought it with a wrecked front noise. I helped him rebuild it. When I went for my driver's license he threw me his car keys to take my test with it. I was more scared of damaging his baby than having the inspector in the car. After the test all the inspector said was, nice car!
I did pass the test but, what a boat to parallel park and do a 3 point turn in. I pushed on the brakes, I almost went through the windshield. I was not used to power stearing, power brakes everything had power, this was in the early 70s. I was used to driving a 3 speed stick 62 Chevy wagon it was a big difference.
I will never forget how that car rides. It was so smooth. Thanks for the memories.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏…. I already read the other comments…. All i got is “ by da jeezus ya did some job”…. Or to translate from Newfinese to English..” Well done sir”…
Skill level never ceases to amaze me !! Nice to see the progression of work. Thanks !
That's the cleanest chop I've seen in a long time.
Takes a man that doesn't like chops to do it right. People who love to chop cars will go nuts and they stop seeing the trees for the forest. Most of those cars end up looking cartoonish. IMO, best chops are the chops that emphasize the line of the car. Like Chip Foose or not, his saying "best mods are those you stop to look what the hell is wrong with the car but can't figure it out at first" is true.
Cadillac should have made it that way 👍👍😎👍👍. Can’t wait for the bead roller modification video. Such a generous viewer gift.
Always a treat to watch and learn. Fitzee makes working with metal look easy but I know better. He’s a master craftsman.
Jeez bud. You're a genius!! That roofline looks perfect!
I'm not a fan of chopped roofs but I can live with that one, It has a 70's look to it. Good job Fitzee.
Australia here, wow, love your work on the Cadillac. Cheers, Dave
You can never tell what it is you did when looking at the finished product. That's the best. Always great work, Fitzee.
Fantastic job on the 63 Caddie. Love your work Fitzee! I use to travel Newfoundland extensively years ago as a bakery technication setting up bakeries from one end of the province to the other. I'm from Nova Scotia and thought we offered great hospitality but after working in Newfoundland it was above and beyond. It was an insult if I was working there and never went back home for lunch or dinner when offered from the people I worked with. Newfoundlanders were the most genuine and down to earth people I've ever meet with the greatest since of humor I've ever seen. I've kissed my cod and consider I'm part Newfoundfize now. LOL I hope I can return some day and believe everyone should visit there just to see how we are suppose to treat each other. Every time I watch your videos It brings such great memories flowing back especially when your touring through places like Signal Hill. Thank you so much for putting a smile on my face and I sure will continue watching.
Thank you. We do have some fine bakeries on this island.
Good afternoon Fitzee, looks great I do like the proportions you maintained. The location of the back window is factory and maintains the correct look. Thanks for a great video. Lots of education. Take care and good luck.
Fitzee you're the man! Love your videos. I've been a body man all my life. You are an artist ☺️.
Your hat is iconic canadian, great job on the Caddy! Hello from Saskatchewan
I'll never get over how nonchalant Fitzee is about what he does. I'm sitting here gobsmacked and he's like...... meh, next project.
Good on you legend good to see you back fitzei top chop job buddy 💪🏼👍🏽🇦🇺👌🏼🍻🔨🏆☝🏼
Yeah man, that is some amazing workmanship! The planning aspect of where to cut, what to cut, and what not to cut has to be from experience. I can't think how you would know what to expect after you make the cuts and remove the two inches, lower the roof down and see how much narrower the roof is now, compared to the body of the car. This is why you see cars that have been chopped and look good at the car shows but you never see the thousands of cars that have been chopped and turned out being an eye sore. You have to start somewhere so I think before I would ever attempt doing it I would try to get a car out of a wrecking yard or off a farmers lot before I destroy something useful.
The imagination, before it's attempted, to know how the car would look after it's chopped, that's the magic part. You know there are some cars that would be a mistake to chop because none of the body would blend in and flow no matter how good the quality of the job was done. I'm pretty sure these days you could possibly take several pictures of a car and do some computer magic and see how it looks before you start.
You know the 1970's Cuda/Challenger design looks great, but I remember when it showed up at the dealerships, I always thought the roof and the body of the car were designed by two different groups. Something about it looks like the roof is just set on top and attached to the body even though the combination looks so damn good.
Thank you once again Frizee! Great video!
I love this job nice Very my friend keep the good work up.
Sweet, amazing.... Loved it fit zee and that grille.
What an honour to receive.
Tips are good, many thanks again.
Love your work Fitzee. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Very nice documentation of this top chop !
Absolutely amazing job on that Cadillac 👍👍
Well Fitz I must say, You did a great job on choppin down that roof, looked great.
Your supporters showing love to you man. You're a great inspiration! Keep up the show and stay healthy 💪
That car looks better than the original, frickin awesome!!!
I'm also from north carolina great to see others around here watch fitzees videos I love his videos I am now getting back into this as it was only a hobby my whole with years off raising kids I'm now beginning to enjoy this again fitzee has made things a lot simpler and easier to do I look forward to his videos and this chop is the way it should have been built great job
Fitzee, An absolutely flawless top chop. You have made the car look 100% better than factory. 2 Thumbs up.
Your gifts were a great add on to the video.
Stay Real.
Another great vid. Beautiful Caddy, love the satin black.
Hey Fitzee watching from South Africa, you do amazing work
I’m looking forward to the bead roller modification. That will be awesome. 👍🏻
Me too - please video how it’s done so we can do it too 👍😎👍
I didn't think I would like a chopped 63 Cadillac, but it was Fitzee so he found a way to make it work.
Not too much chop.👍👍
That is a perfect chop for that model, beautiful job 😎😎😎
That top was very crispy. Nicely done.
Wow, that's some clean fit... It seems better with a longer roof, slicker look.. =) Thumbs up double time.
Wow! Amazing work. Truly outstanding. Should be very useful for someone considering a chop. Thanks for sharing your knowledge once again!
Thank you for showing us the process of doing the chop. Well done!
LOVE IT man !! you certainly know what your at its super enjoyable to watch !
That was the best looking chop of a 60's car I've seen in a long time. Excellent job 🏁
Nice chop job! May have suggested this be for but a old steering wheel will double the control of that bead roller. Best modification I ever done to mine!!!
Man your work is top notch. That chop looks amazing
The Cadillac came out real nice. If you didn't know your Cadillacs you wouldn't know. Nice and mellow. It won't go out of style.
Man Fitzee!! Another amazing video. You have inspired me to play around w the lines on my 65 Malibu 4 door wagon. Don't know if I'll actually chop it but......if I do it'll be just a little.
I think a couple of inches would look good.
Top notch as usual , amazing hands on skills 👍
That wrapping job on the grill was great. Reminds me of my old boss would wrap presents like that. You'd spend a hour getting it open
Wow!... Fantastic Job. Thanks for Sharing. I know that it will help me to do Better Work on my Projects
Thanks Fitzee, you are a craftsman. I just love getting inspiration from your videos as I do from Bad Chad as well. You both work in entirely diffetent ways and so much can be learnt and it's so interesting.
Your metal fabrication skills never seize to amaze me. Your preplanning and execution are top shelf. Have watched other utube metal fab videos but find they should be watching your video before they do theirs. Looking fwd to watching how you motorised the bead roller, have a similar one that I would like to do it to. Take care Tony
Very impressive how you did this, another great educational video. i was going to ask you about cuttin n buttin this, but I just observed. Thanks again.
Nice work on the Cadillac 👍
Looks cool as, Fitzee, .. No longer looks like a big wing flapper; the subtle changes give it great style.
Fitzee, you've done it again. Pretty amazing. Applying common sense and shaping patches until it Fitzee's.
Congratulations!
Very neat JOB!
Nice! I like the new roof line; it seems to flow better than the original.
Really nice chop and great insight into how you thought it through and accomplished it!
You sir are a genius when it comes to metal fabrication, coolest chop I've seen in a long time, well done thanks for sharing 👍🏻
You did a great job...looks awesome
since watching You ive built a small metal break and welder cart out of old angle iron , love your videos ive learned so much! Ive also replaced my rusted out dash on my 70 Nova and some patch panels, Thank You for the awesome tips!
Very nice explaining reason for the chopped top, nice clean work and really came out looking good as I do not like chopped tops but this one is different for the reasons you gave. Car now has better looking lines than the origional. NUFF SAID Great video
wow. great job! I wouldn't even know where to begin. It would be fascinating to watch you chop a vehicle in real time.
Awesome car sir!!! Bad to the bone!!!
The jigs you made were a brilliant idea. I'd have loved to watch your English wheel work on the roof and B pillars. Beautiful job.
Very very nice job.. I also am not a fan of chopping but your version is great and making roof longer etc worked great !
Back in the late 40's a good friend of my dad's was given a perfectly good car. And the friend decided that he and dad would chop the top.
Dad said it came out well, but when they found out what the custom glass was going to cost the project was abandoned.
Dad's friend knew where the car was and I always wanted to see it but the friend would never tell me nor show me the old car.
Anyway that Caddie came out nice! But what doesn't when it's in the hands of a genius sheet metal worker.
Amazing! You never disappoint bud.
Awesome clean job, you are a true master.
Nice job fitzee. That’s a ton of work.
Beautiful work my friend:)
W0W Fitzee, What a Gorgeous Caddy. That, Is S0 MUCH MORE, to me. 👀) 👀)
Don't like when cars are chopped but that was really nicely done, looks so much better.
That's a good looking chop Fitzee. I enjoyed it very much. Ronnie.
Now that's a car,nice cady,thanks fitzs.
Great job on the Caddy! Less is more when it comes to chops in my opinion, and that one turned out beautiful.
Hi Fitzee.
Love the chop, exemplary work as usual.
I'm really looking forward to the motorized bead roller project, I've always wanted one of those 👍
Fitzee have you ever thought about doing illustrated books on your techniques for the beginners to the more advanced if you do I'll personally buy them
I still have a few Peterson (50's?) body books from when they were still actually worth more than eye candy and arsewipe .. but yeah - an updated Fitzee volume? You bet I'd buy one too .. but sadly, I suspect the bean counters looking at the man bun masses leasing Prii (Apparently Toyota's official plural) every four years would never see the lolly sufficient in their minds to go for it. All is not lost however .. Here we be together, supporting our man on the rock. If not directly monetarily, tweaking that UA-cam algo with a love.
The 15 people who disliked this will soon expire under a pickup truck supported by milk crates and bumper jacks.
But there are no "How to" books .. or channels. Or rather no magic read (or watch) this and be an expert in thirty days, money back guarantee. There is a lot of blood and sweat and .. yes - past failure, in these videos that make it look that easy. Fitzee had to learn this too.
What you take away from this, is that it CAN be done by mere mortals with a 120 Volt Canajun Tire rig. Try, do, frig it up, burn through, try again, and never ever give up. No radioactive spiders required. A bit of learnin' and lot of tenacity.
This channel has not actually improved my skills per se, that's a personal issue .. but rather given me the balls to move out of my comfort zone and cut into what was once scary.
So although I'd expect any subscriber to this channel WOULD buy a Fitzee book .. Again, I myself certainly would - The actual purpose of owning such would be less technically informative than post it on the wall inspirational.
So whatever you're burning on Gary .. go for it!
'well thought out and explained.
Great results - thank you
Sweet project, Tony.
That was a very interesting detailed look at how you did that chop. It was certainly complex with all the work involved, but it came out looking great and well proportioned and well shaped. Sloping the roof more to the front was a really good move, as it looks a lot better than the original with the roof sloping to the back.
Wow on the work you did! Ide love to have that car.
Talent at its highest level 👍
Nice job with the Caddy! Would have been funny to see the knowledgeable Caddy folks come along and peer at it trying to figure out what was wrong :)
Nice chop! Thanks for sharing!
Great job it looks better then the original the longer roof makes for nicer in my opinion
im not a chop top fan at all but i do appreciate the amount of work put into it.
great job; you made it look like it should of always been. very tricky to do that and make t look even better
A great chop looks great
Once again, absolute genius!
An amazing chop job !
Man that turned out awesome 👌
Good to see you back Fitz , thought u might have been under the weather since the trailer vid
No just busy with jobs that I feel don't have good content. Trying to clear up that stuff so I can get back at video I have planned
Nice job on the Caddy.
I like your Calico buddy!
" All I had to do was..."!!! yeah! Right! amazing!
Man, I have a rust spot starting in the rear dogleg on my 13 Traverse, I think I’m going to try “cut& butt” on it!
Very high level craftsmanship and understanding going on there. Very subtle and classy look. I think a lot of pros could learn a few things on this one. Should go to every length to not allow twisting parts to cause headaches later I see.
Watching Fitzee is like being in a master class.
I was kind of curious how the chopping process worked. Thanks for explaining things Tony.
Wow nice job on that caddy if I come across money you be doing me a caddy like that
Work of art for sure