Tex Smith's How to Chop Tops Author:Leroi Tex Smith, Rich Johnson This is the first and most exhaustive book available on the subject of Chop Tops. It contains over 200 pages, with step by step-by-step guidelines on hammering the lid on rods and customs, as well as pickups. This book covers all categories of tops with instructions applicable to customizing cars from the twenties and thirties, all the way up ... more »through todays automobiles.« less