Complete and utter disassembly

jos51700 said

I recently had a tree fall on my Valiant and it caved in the upper part of the window frame. I have a donor roof.

Am I better off to porta power the roof back up, as a member here suggested, or re skin it?

I am NOT a body man, and I figured the non body person way was to reskin it, as I figure Ma Mopar tried to keep body work to a minimum.

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The first thing I would do would be have the car put on a frame rack to insure it didn't get bent. The roof is structural to the subframes. It may have tweaked something, it may not. I'd rather know, personally. My '74 Challenger looked very straight when I got it, but I had it racked anyhow. It turned out there was unseen crash damage. When I got it back, the car sat differently and obviously so.

I think I'd rather attempt to straighten the existing roof structure if possible, then re-skin.