SIX MONTHS LATER
All that is left to do is paint them and touch up the drivers side window so it is identical to the passenger side window.
I started on the drivers side, and I seriously overthought the entire plan. Originally I wanted to fab some latches and avoid any screw type mechanism, but then I realized after driving it with the home made latches that the piece of mind a screw type latch would offer would be worth it. Because I was deathly afraid that one of the latches would fail and I would lose the whole window going down the road. So I attempted a different route with the pass. side and am very happy with it.
The first attempt I used wing nuts, but those rattled loose after driving for awhile. Then I found these rubber nuts with a threaded metal sleeve inside and they work, as Tony would say, Grrrreeat!
Finished product, sans paint:
The interior is going to be "remodeled"
in order to accomodate the new studs for the windows. The factory molding severely interferes with the removing of the nuts, so it is going to get reworked....
And a shot of the Miracle Nut
I still have to find some paint to paint the edges of the windows to hide the white dots, remove the old latches from the drivers side and apply new weather stripping. Then I will put my stickers on there and it will be like new
I will get some shots of the windows removed at some point, hopefully within the next six months......