About those blessed rivets, here is what I did. After disassembling the body before painting, I could seethe back of a the rivets I wanted to remove. They looked like what a normal rivet would look. just a hole in the center with a cringlet of bent-over metal around. Sanding that with a Dremel’ was easy andI removed them. To reinstall them, I soldered a short piece of copper rod to the ends, put them back and J-B welded them to the back qagain. I evidently did not put them exactly at the same angle with respect to the tag, and that is probably why you can see amall scratches around the heads. My bad! As far as the windshield, I don’t remember if the painter ever removed it, but I doubt it. The gasket is original. The windshield still has a 1982 Georgia inspection sticker.