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Really enjoying the first few rides with the 50 and i gt a lot of positive comments on the chopped (4 inches) top... but as you chopped top guys know, on the AD style, once its sectioned, none of the door window and windshield metal trim fits... i was expecting that...

i can see sectioning the metal trim for the window openings in the doors. take a few inches out here and there and re-weld?

but i am stumped on how to make the inner windshield trim work. the angles have all changed to the point where now even the curves won't line up... i can't see making cuts every two inches and having it look decent

also... the headliner? any crafty solutions to the stock headlines doesn't fit anymore blues?

therefor, i seek advice and offer free beer and cigar smoke

You have chopped the roof down already? Do you have any photos?

Are you talking about the inside trim or outside? Both of them should be pretty easy, I did mine years ago. All it takes is simply cut them shorter, I don't understand the problem.

The door mouldings, that is a different story. If you laid the windshield posts back, they will require a lot of "massaging". If you lengthened the roof to line up the windshield pillars, then you just have to do exactly what you did to the doors, lengthen the top half just as you did the roof! If you can chop the top, you certainly can chop the mouldings.

Brian