Valiant on craigs list

Dartnut said

I am no stranger to cutting cars up and parting them etc.
A lot of people don't realize what really went on back in the day when these were just cars.............
However, i'm thinking that it might have been easier to convert this 4 door to a 2 door using his car for parts.
A 2 door post '69 Valiant is in effect a 4 door converted at the factory sharing the same roof, rear window etc. as a 4 door with different quarters, post, doors, and some interior stuff.
An experienced metal magician like you should be able to do this conversion fairly easily, most others probably not.
Wouldn't it have been easier (and faster) to graft the quarters, post, and doors off of his 2 door onto this car and have a better car in the long run?
From what i understand, his 2 door needed the whole front clip including inner fenders and frame rails, floor pan and trunk floor, and fire wall.
What are your thoughts on this?

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We thought of converting the 4 door . The worst on his car is the frame is bent from a wreck years back. The fire wall is good we are using this firewall for a pattern to put the AC in a Demon. He wants his car. He has it a long time.

I do what the customer wants. My son would have left it a 4 door. His thought was more money to be made on weekends. I have to many cars here and coming in. So once a decision is made I don't Divert.

We are doing a fresh big block for the Valiant . He saw the Demon that just left and wanted his car done the same way. We drop them out the bottom and restore everything under the hood. After that the rest of the car is a different job. The floors in Daves valiant will be new. You cannot buy front rails that was the reason for buying the 4 door.

My son and I were talking last night. We are going to make a body fixture for 108 wheel base a-bodies. We have one already It will just take some new attachments for the car. We have two nice shells here to mock one up. This will make it so much easier to cut these cars up and weld them back together.

Our freind does the troyer modifies. When they get hit he puts the frame on the jig and cuts off what don't fit then adds the new parts using the various mounts that fit the fixture. we just used this to build this trailer and it worked great. Nothing moved during the welding process .