I'm not sure how true that is, you don't see new luxury cars sporting vent windows. I think the main reason they did away with them is because A/C became a pretty standard option and they were no longer needed. I've thought about the one piece window but it would be so long I think it would be to obvious that something is missing.

 

I figured I’d write a tutorial for shaving the drip rails.
The part of the drip rail that runs up the windshield pillar can be removed by drilling out the spot welds under the door weather stripping. I used a chisel instead and grinded down the spot welds afterwards. For the rest of the drip rail I used a cutoff wheel and cut the drip rail off leaving about an 1/8” extra between the cut and the roof. Don’t cut the whole drip rail off at once or the two pieces of metal will separate and it will be harder to weld the seam back up (first hand experience). Work in 8-12” sections. Once you get one section removed make a few tack welds every couple inches to keep the two pieces from separating. Keep going until the drip rail is completely removed. Next take a grinder and carefully grind down that 1/8” excess you left until its flush and tack weld as done before again working in sections. Once you have it flush and all tacked together grab a wet towel and prepare yourself to make hundreds of tacks. To completely weld up the seam make 6-10 overlapping tacks then cool the area down with the wet towel to prevent any warping. Now that it’s all welded up grind and file the weld. Good luck.

 

You might be talking about my thread. I actually shaved mine off and then bent metal to go over the area to give it a straighter appearance. I am not done with the front though because I am going to wrap the front pillars when I do it to achieve my flush mounted windows. The second pic is a drawing of how I did it to work with my window moulding.

 

You're gonna do what? Flush mounted windows or windshield? I don't see how you would flush mount the windows but I was thinking about flush mounting the windshield.

 

I also thought about putting an extra piece of metal around the window. I'm going to try to use a large flat file first. The grinder just wont cut it. If the file doesn't work out I'll be doing the same as you.

 

I am flush mounting the front and rear windshields. I would like to get rid of my wing windows and put in a full piece of glass but am too lazy to do the leg work to try to find a window that would work.

 

I looked into the one piece glass a while back and found a shop that did glass for hot rods and it you gave them a pattern they would cut one for you I don't remember their site but there are several online.

 

So I'm coming in really late on this one but I finally got the time to get my pictures up.

 

so all i have to do is grind it smooth with the roof weld and smooth mine are like crap and this would be great

 

Wow, it looks like a early 70's camero. You slam a 350 in there too?