It’s exhilarating to watch the body slowly come back together, one piece at a time, and the mounting of the doors just brings us into another phase of the restoration.
Its starting to look like a roadster!
The wooden door frames are installed and the doors will be re-skinned. We decided to re-skin the doors because once the original door skins were stripped there was quit a bit of bondo. Previous poor repairs to the doors and re-skinning is just more cost effective. Plus the doors will be perfectly straight!
The door wood was not in too bad of shape and the lower door wood had been replaced in its previous restoration where the door skin anchor strip is screwed to the wood.
I’ve ordered the correct hinge bolt and nut kit from Roy Nacewicz hopefully I will see them shortly.
The lower door skin steel anchor strip is installed on the passenger side bottom of the door. The new door skins will be crimped over the anchor strips. There was very little left of the original anchor strips and they had that Swiss cheese look. I was dumb founded as to why during its previous restoration they would have used the old rusted door skin anchor strips these are not that difficult to reproduce!
As I said looks like Swiss Cheese and this was the better side.
The lower door skin anchor strip is installed on the driver’s side bottom door with the rocker panel temporarily installed below the anchor strip. Stay tuned, the door skins will be installed over the next few weeks.
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Wow just wih i could fid one i could buy Retored or basket case..Looks nice..The Best
Thanks…