I did it on my 68 last year. I posted a want ad on Craigslist and found a guy a short drive that let me cut a clean top off of another coupe that was rusted out below the belt line. I used a grinding disk in my 4 1/2 inch grinder, using the edge to get down into the drip rail channel and completely grind through the skin, leaving the drip rail in place. I drilled out the rest of the spot welds... lesson learned, buy a quality spot weld drill. The ones at Harbor Freight are only good for a few welds. On the donor, make sure you cut at the very bottom of the C pillar, the factory seam is just about two inches from the top of the fender. I turned it over and ground through the bottom of the drip rail and through the pinch welds in the window channel. I was left with a clean skin as it would have been before original installation. I was going to use the glue method originally, but decided to plug weld instead. Took quite a few weekends to do, but I'm very happy with the results.
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