Guys Guys Guys!!! Whoa! I'm not talking about doing this to a pristine survivor...I've got a 73 hatchback covered in a two-tone color scheme...black primer and rust! The car has no resale value right now anyway.
But it is a fun little car, I dropped my 250 in it so it drives around and I just bought my first welder so I was going to use this car to practice welding on, covering some of the rust holes with sheet metal. Then I was just thinking...about a cool custom hatchback where the hatchback was removed and t-tops were installed in the top.... what a cool little summer cruiser the breeze would just flow through! It would be like a Nova - Del Sol!

kind of like a monster garage thing.
I've got a 71 that I wouldn't mess up...but what about fun! I agree there is a good chance it would look terrible...but that would be the challenge...to make it look good and cool! What if?