RUST carnage on my 74's roof. Help?

[Vegas_Nick]

I guess it's what I get for picking at the bondo. You know, where the previous owner says... yeah there's a little bondo where the vinyl top used to be. 

So any way, I started chipping some back and found out the roof is pretty much a bondo sheet.





So I'll be shopping for a donor 74 possibly if we can't figure out how to patch it correctly. Since we're building more of a track day car, I am ok with redoing this by one large welded in patch.

So any way... the big channel there. Is that for weather strip or is the roof metal supposed to go over it? Anyone here tackled this mess before?

[RallyeMike]

I can't tell if I'm looking at the top of the back or front window, but the channel looks too wide in either case. My guess is that the rubber blocks that sit at the bottom of the glass are missing and that the glass was installed too low, making the channel wide. Sorry to say ..... that looks like a mess.

[hemi-hampton]

I can't tell what I'm looking at either. maybe zoom out a little?

[Vegas_Nick]

 Sorry. This is the top edge of the front roof line almost inline with the drivers seat.

[Nacho-RT74]

My car is being patched there, but more on passenger side. Inner frame got damaged too and its being patched too.

Can't post pics from the cell phone. The guy fixing it sent me pics via Whassapp of the job being made

[Vegas_Nick]

Thanks Nacho. I'd love to see pics.

[Nacho-RT74]

If I found how, will do. The problem is posting from the cellphone will take allways same file name like already posted and I can't change it. I haven't got the full pics setup of the patching process, but is basically cut and get the patch shaped to the same area to patch. I can say the body man working on my car is a GREAT one.

He is patching in fact a bad previous patching job done there, so this new fixing there is not the first time but is getting made correctly this time

[Vegas_Nick]

Any idea what gauge the roof steel is? I think we will end up fabbing this up ourselves. The one I found today was $500 and that was if we cut it off ourselves.

[Nacho-RT74]

I'd love a full roof skin and front frame replacement, but can't afford it... aside is hard to find a decent roof around here.

I allways get angry when I find new panels being made but not roof skins for 3rd gens, being  maybe 75% of the B bodies got vinyl roof, AND is the same roof skin for all 71/74 Plymouths and Dodge B body 2 doors ( so there is a market )

The roof skin seems to be 18 gauge, and the frame 16, but my body man is making everything in 16