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Has anyone ever attempted to transplant the roof from one GT to another?
I have the opportunity to get a second '74 GT body for free. However, a PO has cannibalized the roof from this car.
I can take the roof from Igor, and fix all the rusty bits, and hopefully splice it onto the new body (which I've named "old Baldy"). This makes more sense than it sounds, because Baldy's body has 99 44/100% less rust than Igor.
When they cut the roof off Baldy, they left the windshield (pardon me, "windscreen") frame complete. I got a suggestion to cut the A pillars, near the top corners of the windscreen, and weld it together there.
The big problem comes at the back. They cut the C pillars perpendicular to the slope of the back of the car, starting at the "point" of the quarter windows. That leaves very little of the C pillars attached to the quarter panels.
Also, Igor has quite a bit of rust, at the bottom of the C pillars. That means we'll need to fab up patches, when we connect Igor's roof onto Baldy.
Does anyone have any advise, about potential pitfalls we might encounter, with this operation?
I have the opportunity to get a second '74 GT body for free. However, a PO has cannibalized the roof from this car.
I can take the roof from Igor, and fix all the rusty bits, and hopefully splice it onto the new body (which I've named "old Baldy"). This makes more sense than it sounds, because Baldy's body has 99 44/100% less rust than Igor.
When they cut the roof off Baldy, they left the windshield (pardon me, "windscreen") frame complete. I got a suggestion to cut the A pillars, near the top corners of the windscreen, and weld it together there.
The big problem comes at the back. They cut the C pillars perpendicular to the slope of the back of the car, starting at the "point" of the quarter windows. That leaves very little of the C pillars attached to the quarter panels.
Also, Igor has quite a bit of rust, at the bottom of the C pillars. That means we'll need to fab up patches, when we connect Igor's roof onto Baldy.
Does anyone have any advise, about potential pitfalls we might encounter, with this operation?
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