A.C. Ward - thanks for the post on the hood. Definitely makes me realize there are so many little detail items I'll need to address on my build, too.
Soooo I completely stripped the outer skin on the driver door and then I found some bad news...The previous owner had repainted the door and in the process used a TON of body filler below the door handle. The door had a pretty gnarly dent in it. And that was only half the problem. The outer skin seemed to be a replacement panel and was very thin metal. The area where the dent was had a nasty "oil canning" issue. Needless to say, after about an hour trying to fix the dent and oil canning I decided to go a different route.
I have a set of doors from an old '69 I picked up in high school. The doors were pretty dang rough so I never thought about using them. Low and behold the outer skin on the driver door was original and in fairly good shape other than a little rust in the lower corner (easy patch). Next thing you know I cut that skin off the door and plan on swapping it over to the good inner door skin.
Hoping to continue the repair this weekend.
Al
Time wasted stripping original door
The jacked up '69 door hinge area. This area and the inner door skin were all rusted out/dented
This is the worst spot on the outer skin
With the door skins separated it should give me a great opportunity to clean up and coat the inside of the door
