Thread: Shaved door handles

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So what this comes down to is you have to have factory design or similar door handles on your car in some states? I think theres an issue there. Seems to me that as long as you have some type of manual handle that works properly it should pass. Its like saying "Sorry, i cant pass it. They came with single piston disc brakes and you have dual" I still think the AMC paddle handles would work

Call me odd, but I like the looks of the Monte Carlo flush mount door handles. Camaro might have them too. I'm thinking of putting them on the "Z" if I can maybe find a couple wrecked doors. CUt the door skin around the handle to graft to the "Z" door. Wouldn't be a shaved door, but it would be a little different from the plain chrome pull up bar.

Originally posted by techinspector1
pro, this is something I've paid little attention to as to how releases work (never have been much of a body and paint guy), but I remember a clever little release that I saw on a doorslammer where the fellow cut a finger-sized hole in the Lexan so he could just stick his finger in and push on a small aluminum disc to open the door. Like I said, I just never paid much attention to this and maybe it's used more than I've noticed, but when this topic came up, it flashed through my mind about this neat little solution.

Yup, I've seen those too. They are purdy slick, but require lexan. I'm going as street legal as possible so I'm going with OEM glass. I just noticed the handles on the wifes 03 Monte and thought to myself, that would be a subtle change I could make that would be a little different. I haven't looked into the linkage, but I'm sure it could be adapted easy enough since they both open with a "pull up". Also considered corvette taillights but that one I'm not so sure about. When it comes to body changes, I'd like them to be just a little different. So people have to look twice and ask themselves is that OEM or is it memorex??????

Cors' I realize a blower N' injection hat through the hood won't fool anybody but ...........oh well.......................

Originally posted by Don Shillady
lt1s10, What's your opinion on whether '28 inner roadster handles without outer handles will pass? My title says'29 when the roadster first had the external handles, but it would be easier to install '28 latches for which you just slip a finger through the side curtain. But if necessary I will put the external '29 handles on, it's just another hole to drill and worry about fracturing fiberglass. I guess you put tape on the glass to avoid chipping around the edge?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

don, if your gonna get a st insp. on your 28 i wouldnt worry about a out side door handle. drop the top and pull up into the shop like you own it. they will be so impressed with it they wont think about no door handle. hopefully they'll check the safety items close though. go by and see your buddy joe, he'll know someone that will put a sticker on it. once you get you sticker then i dont think the law would bother you on that older car. most of the inspectors wouldn't know that to check on a 29 no how.

Originally posted by drg84
So what this comes down to is you have to have factory design or similar door handles on your car in some states? I think theres an issue there. Seems to me that as long as you have some type of manual handle that works properly it should pass. Its like saying "Sorry, i cant pass it. They came with single piston disc brakes and you have dual" I still think the AMC paddle handles would work

it don't have to be just like, it has to similar to. a electric push button under the car , behind the mirror or behind the lic. plate is not similar, a lever in the trunk or under the hood is not similar, but most any push or pull manual devise in the vicinity of where the factory normally put them would be ok.

Originally posted by pro70z28
Yup, I've seen those too. They are purdy slick, but require lexan. I'm going as street legal as possible so I'm going with OEM glass. I just noticed the handles on the wifes 03 Monte and thought to myself, that would be a subtle change I could make that would be a little different. I haven't looked into the linkage, but I'm sure it could be adapted easy enough since they both open with a "pull up". Also considered corvette taillights but that one I'm not so sure about. When it comes to body changes, I'd like them to be just a little different. So people have to look twice and ask themselves is that OEM or is it memorex??????

Cors' I realize a blower N' injection hat through the hood won't fool anybody but ...........oh well.......................

the door handle set up would work ok in va. you can use the lights in va. as long you dont cover them up. i put cabby tail lights in my s10 and i cut a cat eye for them to shine through. i just paid the ticket and had to cut my tail gate up, just because i had about 20% of the light covered up. passed st insp. but the trooper didnt like it. had driven it like that for 2 yrs. all you have to worry about is that blower.

Originally posted by lt1s10
the door handle set up would work ok in va. you can use the lights in va. as long you dont cover them up. i put cabby tail lights in my s10 and i cut a cat eye for them to shine through. i just paid the ticket and had to cut my tail gate up, just because i had about 20% of the light covered up. passed st insp. but the trooper didnt like it. had driven it like that for 2 yrs. all you have to worry about is that blower.

I ask around everytime I see somebody with a blower. No one has had a problem. One guy even got stopped for speeding and they gave him the speeding ticket but not a word about the blower? Hope it stays that way. Like you said it only takes one Barney Fife to mess it up. Around here if they know you and you don't give them a reason.....they are purdy' good about leavein' ya' alone.
Another tought I had for the tail lights is to french them in about an inch and put all red lenses in all four. Then put small back up lights in the lower panel.

Originally posted by pro70z28
I ask around everytime I see somebody with a blower. No one has had a problem. One guy even got stopped for speeding and they gave him the speeding ticket but not a word about the blower? Hope it stays that way. Like you said it only takes one Barney Fife to mess it up. Around here if they know you and you don't give them a reason.....they are purdy' good about leavein' ya' alone.

i know and id pay the fine if i could keep on riding, but once you get caught then you have to change it. i run a blower in richmond for 15 yrs and never got stoped, but they came out with a height law above the hood in 1990 and my shop was doing about 600 st insp. a mo so i had to take it off or loose my shop lic. the tail lights i ran for 2 yrs and was stoped a few times and nothing was said about the lights, but then they sent this new hot shot trooper in that was gonna clean this place up, so he gave everybody a ticket for something for the first few mos. now you cant find him if you needed him.

Originally posted by lt1s10
then they sent this new hot shot trooper in that was gonna clean this place up, so he gave everybody a ticket for something for the first few mos. now you cant find him if you needed him.

If you knew then what you know now you coulda' kept it in the garage til' he left. HEHEHE The way construction is goin' here, It's probably just a matter of time before they clamp down here too.

Originally posted by pro70z28
If you knew then what you know now you coulda' kept it in the garage til' he left. HEHEHE The way construction is goin' here, It's probably just a matter of time before they clamp down here too.

my wife has a jeep, i have a s10. i checked but there was nothing else to drive. i couldnt cut it out 100% no how so i only cut a little more out and am waiting for him to stop me again but i think hes gone. havent seen him lately. he was just making a name for himself.