[McCoyAZ]

I talked to an old school body guy about this just a few days ago.

He said it was a total waste of time and energy to go through all that work when a guy could just "crimp down" the existing panel and spot weld it together.

Now I am no expert at this, just passing along what the old fella said.

And to answer the question:

I tried all sorts of ways to make this easy and found that there isn't an easy way to accomplish what you want to do.

My thinking is that air tools would be of great benefit for this task.