You could do that repair in your shop, Bill. But you could also consider leaving it off. Depending on your future plans are for the car, I strongly suspect that some wind noise and air-flow disruption down the sides of the car come from the drip rails on the a-pillar. When the whole drip-rail is removed, the pinch-weld seam for the roof panel is exposed and I'm not a good enough body man to make 4 feet of that ugly thing go away. But you are....