[La Voce]

Hi Grant,
No, just because there is evidence of rust around the glass does not mean it's terminal. BUT- to stop it you must remove all glass, and I mean ALL the glass, front, rear, and sides, including removing all of the chrome trim strips that run beneath the bottom of all of the glass. You can't see it yet, but there is more rust lurking beneath all of those chrome trim strips. The fixed side glass panels will be the worst. Once you carefully pry off the chrome strips, you will see spring clips that tension the glass panels in place, these will all be rusted, as are the sills that trap the glass in place between the car's interior and exterior. It's just the way the car is designed. Wash it and without drying it, observe where the water sits without draining off. It's along all those lower glass chrome strips. The metal beneath the upper drip rail chrome is OK, probably no need to worry about it. You'll have to remove the interior panels to do this job, and drill out some rivets, but it's not too difficult. If you are careful you can reuse the front and rear glass gasket rubbers. If they are brittle or dry rotted, you're looking at several hundred dollars to replace them. I was able to reuse my windshield gasket, had to buy a new rear glass rubber from Highwood. Also, drill out the rivets that retain the front fender access panels, the drain tube for the sunroof is in there, and it's the drain point for the cowl. All the debris that fell down in there through the cowl over the years is clogging the drain slit in there and may be rusting. There's much more of this along with pictures in my thread "saved a Sprint Veloce from the crusher". Good Luck!