Door panels

[67Plymouthbarracuda]

Anybody here made their own door panels? out of aluminum or anything? If so what all did you do?

 

[GaryS]

Any auto upholstery shop should have the material you need...at least that's where I get mine. It's a black-ish compressed cardboard that is water repellent and easy to cut to shape. It's similar to the OEM material, except for color.

 

[72ScampTramp]

Yup, 1/8th" masonite. I used the originals as template. Cut clip holes and holes. Wife made covers out of vinyl sewed in the lines and covered them.

 

[inkjunkie]

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Mine are from a plastic sheet of some sort....with the cage the arm rest pads would not fit....figured it might look a bit odd with oe style door panels. Not to mention the 4 of them only cost me 20 bucks or so....

 

[67Plymouthbarracuda]

inkjunkie those look good! what'd you use for clips?

 

[67Plymouthbarracuda]

scamptramp put some pictures up of your car! I couldn't see them on your build thread man!

 

[hot rod valiant]

I made mine out of aluminum and glued headliner material to them. I used plastic push pins to hold them in place.

 

[72ScampTramp]

scamptramp put some pictures up of your car! I couldn't see them on your build thread man!

Start from the last page and go back. Some time back the site went down and took all my photos from the first few pages.

 

[cosgig]

Yup, 1/8th" masonite. I used the originals as template. Cut clip holes and holes. Wife made covers out of vinyl sewed in the lines and covered them.

Wow, those are nice!!!...

 

[67Plymouthbarracuda]

If I use vinyl, what glue do I use?

 

[inkjunkie]

inkjunkie those look good! what'd you use for clips?

Small black screws. If I remember right they are just some sort of trim screws with washers....will look at them next time I go out there.....if I remember...

 

[72ScampTramp]

I used 3m spray adhesive.

 

[Dfr360cuda]

Hi
I will be attempting this type of project too...
I figure I can use originals as a pattern...
Door handles hit roll cage...
I can probably recover the cost by selling the originals to someone that wants restored look instead of race look...


:burnout:

 

[pauly]

My duster came with some fabbed stainless ones. I'm going to try to make them work - just need to put something behind them to quiet them down~