08hhr

im just looking to do a slant back similar to the 47 merc. interior is no problem for me.

jeffs396

Glass is the biggest headache in doing these...the sheetmetal surgery is the easy part. You cannot cut the side or rear glass as it's tempered, only the windshield can be cut down, as it's laminated. Priced custom formed tempered glass lately? When inquiring for my barn doors, cost would be a minimum of $5000 to make the tooling to form the glass! Easiest way would be to find a laminated windshield with the same curvature (lots of scrounging in scrap yards with curvature templates) and have it cut down to fit the liftgate. Side glass is only curved in one plane, but may be hard to find a windshield that doesn't have compound curves.

garagebuilt, what are you trying to do with the small glass on the rear door? It does come out of the weatherstripping, just a tight fit. If you tore the rubber, I'm sure you can get a replacement from a junkyard out of a damaged door. I had mine all apart in preparation for welding the window opening up like a panel door, then had to put it back together in order to drive the thing It came apart easier than it went back together

garagebuilt

mine is apart for paint i was just pointing out that it was part of the weatherstriping and may be hard to "chop"

ctommy

I don't want to do anything to discourage you, but modern unibody stuff isn't very accomodating when it comes to "old skool" modifications.

I'm no expert, but I learned more about chops and glass modification listening to this guy for a half an hour than I have in my whole life:

http://www.kennyskustomsmb.com/

There apparently IS a way to cut the tempered glass, but it requires special tools, extreme patience and probably a lot of windshields, because one slip and POW! glass crumbles.

Best of luck! I'd love to see it. I'd love even more to see a welded up three door with a single glass in the sides like a delivery wagon or a Nomad. Keep the faith!