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Not till next winter

Well the door looks pretty good. Too bad no one will ever see it once the interior door panels go back on.

Most of the doors back together. Just need to put the window tracks and glass back in.

We may never see it, but you’ll always know!

Finished reassembling the doors. Replacement regulator spring came in from the Dallas Zone (thanks to Flackmaster) and went in without issue.

There is for sure an order of operation when putting all the inards back in the door. Pro-tip, the inside door handle/linkage has to go in first.

Finally part are coming up from the basement and back onto the car.




I also got the door panels and kick panels installed. I had to do some surgery on the door panels to fix deformed and broken clips, and also the odd clip retainers that pull out of the door card.




The door panels are actually original ones, but they came used from a 36. They are still holding in there.... just barely.

The carpet won't go back in until after the motor comes back as I'll need to pull the floorboard to reinstall the transmission.

Since I've made sheet metal and struture repairs to areas behind the B-Pillars, the doors aligned better than I've ever seen the, and now close like a bank vault door.