When I did my bird the first time I sanded the windshield and back light aluminum trim with 500 grit and shot them with SEM trim Black. Came out well and lasted 20 years till I took the car apart again. Chromed pot metal door handles, headlight buckets, parking light bezels I sandblasted then filled pits, primed & painted body color. I left the chrome pot metal trim around the grills and painted the grills silver with black grates (using the SEM trim Black). Roll cage and grills are the same Lotus silver to tie the interior & exterior.
IMO you have to be very careful when changing the car from stock brightwork to blacked, body colored or eliminated or else the car can end up looking kinda "funny" in a bad way. Sometimes color has an impact on that as well. As an example I'll use my 81 Malibu. I'm colorblind so I'm limited on what colors I'm willing to paint my cars. I've had mostly red cars all my life but can see yellow so I did the Malibu in Audi Imola Yellow. Small yellow cars look ok but as the cars get bigger the vast expanses of yellow needs to be broken up by trim, vinyl tops, convertibles, etc. or it's just too much yellow. On my Malibu I've kept a Landau top to reduce the sq ft of yellow.
I mention the color because your car's pretty big so removing the side trim is going to have a big visual difference on a slab sided car like that.
You can see in pic below without black Landau top how a slab sided all yellow car is too much yellow. Besides the roof I'll use a pinstripe and some emblems to break up the yellow.