Brian, Thanks for your usual useful tutorial. I am now wondering whether I can install stock A-roadster latches or will I have to adapt a latch as you have if/when I get a 'glass roadster body. I'm just wondering why you chose not to use the stock latches and put the latch in the way of a possible stock window glass since your doors are from a sedan. I would REALLY like to have wind up cabriolet style windows, but roadster doors are way too thin. Anyway thanks for showing us your fabrication steps. I am still learning about roadsters in the sense that recently
I realized that a lot of roadsters have no windshield wiper at all and the guy (Bill) at BeBops told me that many states don't require windshield wipers for totally open cars and in fact they sell a top kit for a windshield with only a glass edge at the top. Since you have sedan doors (but apparently no windows) I guess you would qualify for the no-windshield wiper status here in some states in the U.S. but I have no idea what your regulations are. Just musing over future problems with a 'glass roadster as I watch you build your steel RPU. Maybe someone else might comment on the windshield wiper question. At present I would lean toward a simple mechanical hand wiper but that would require a round top frame on the windshield and you seem to have cut off the top edge (or the previous owner did). Please excuse my rambling questions, I will have to solve these problems soon and I really did not think about them until I saw your door latch mods. Can you tell us what the source of the latches is?

Best Wishes,
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder