You guys just make me realize how extremely lucky I am to have a car that still has about 95% of it's original content in good working condition. Something as complex as a door with all the moving parts and interconnections would be a total nightmare to make fit and function correctly with aftermarket parts. There are so many individual parts, all having to fit and move together just one simple item like a roller that is .015" too big or too small or a window slide/guide with a mounting hole punched off center .030", would throw off the entire fit.
I have great respect for anyone who can start with an aftermarket door shell and build the door with all aftermarket parts and actually make the door and window fit. They were bad enough when they left the factory with all GM parts! My car with mostly OE parts and NOS replacements bought in the late 1970's early 1980's was enough of a challenge for me. Still, I needed some help to really get it right.
I have watched several long videos by experts who have started with those Dynacorn complete muscle car bodies and built "new" cars from them. Hundreds if not thousands of hours to re-drill almost every hole in the body shell, slot, cut, weld, modify almost every inch of those things to make a decent fitting project. Several experienced builders said it would have been easier to just start with a rusty OE hulk from the acid bath and fix it as needed rather than start with a reproduction body where everything is wrong? I am not a body and paint guy but as an informed observer, it looks like a nightmare.
I am very happy to return to the mechanical restoration portion of the project now. Good luck to all of you still fighting with body, interior and fit items. My least favorite work on a car.
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