[1_Wild_Cat]

Hello everyone -- Thanks to those of you still following along with this saga - I appreciate everybody who is rooting this project along. Things are starting to come together.

We return to Cam's work on the doors. Replacing the lower portion of the door skin on the passenger side provided an opportunity to establish good, even gaps around the door.

First the door structure was shot with SPI epoxy to provide corrosion resistance and inside of the door skin was also epoxied.



The skin was then fitted to the door structure on the car and the outside of the skin edge marked to reflect a 3/16" gap at the point where the skin wraps around the door structure.





The skin was then trimmed, the edge is upset with a tipping tool. Following this the skin is hemmed to the structure with hammer and dolly (guided by experience and a deft hand).

The result is a door with an excellent gap all the way around.



The other side looks great too...



Thanks again to those following along. I will be making more updates in the next few days.