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Originally Posted by JUDGE3

yup

the original door skin (mine anyway) are tack welded along the top to the inner structure and then in the center front and center rear. the rest is just the fold over.

firebird owners, if you haven't ever looked down at that bottom of the door with your door panel off and paid attention to the cringe worthy built in water trap you should. I went bonkers letting por15 run down there and then filled the trough so water can't just stand there.

one thing I've been blown away about during restoration is all the built in rust traps. unreal. the factory was definitely not thinking in terms of longevity.

I intend to grudgingly use the clear stick on urethane cut as needed all along the bottom of mine as well as on the fender flares. I remember how the paint was nicked thru all along the bottom of my 80 trans am. no other way to prevent that except urethane sheeting.

Sounds like a good idea.

Mine has just surface rust in that area that we're both taking about, so further down the line I'll wirewheel the bejeezus out of it and nuke it with some rust-preventative coating. I just need something to stop it in its tracks since years down the road, I want to give my car a show quality paintjob down to bare metal (preferably acid-dip to REALLY reveal what is or is not wrong).