Street Rodder Magazine The first time we saw Glen Baugus' chopped-and-channeled five-window coupe, it looked ready to leap across the parking lot-and the silver paint was almost blinding in the sunlight. Glen informed us right away that he wasn't the builder, just the extremely lucky owner. We had already decided from its level of detail, imagination, taste, and craftsmanship that this had to be a pro-built hot rod. Wrong. Completely homebuilt, Glen said, and if we were going to write a story about the car, we needed to talk to the guy who built it. There is zero shop time in this car, Jim Lopochonsky confirmed. He did all the work at home, with body and paintwork done by his wife, Diana, and fabrication help from his son, Jamison. He wanted to build a '60s-style hot rod like the ones he saw in magazines as a kid and, in particular, like the mean-looking Model A five-window with six 2s he remembers seeing at the service station in his town. Jim sat on the same side of the school bus every morning just to start his day with a look at that coupe-and on the opposite side in the afternoon for another eyeful. In the years that followed, he built lots of cars, but that coupe "stuck in my skull." Diana found this coupe for sale in a trader paper. Jim kept the body and got rid of the rest. The top had been chopped, but not enough and not well, so he re-chopped it for a total of 4-1/2 inches and added the white insert and drilled visor. The headlights are from a '29 Model A and ...
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