Door and kick panels finished, ready for upholstery

[brianrupnow]

Well, there it is---the current roadster pick-up thrash is finished, ready to move on to whatever I decide is next. What you see is interior panels made fron 1/8" luan mahogany (thats a door skin from your local building supplier, $10.50 for one peice, big enough for 2 door and 2 kick panels.) Making the panels was the easy part----before I could do them, I had to chase down some decent door handles from the wreckers (old Mazdza), modify the door to mount them, and fabricate linkage rods to operate the bear-claw latches. Then I had to buy speakers, and modify the doors to mount them. The panels are currently attached with one screw in each corner, as a temporary measure to trial fit them. I am somehow in a raging controversy as to what the final means of attachment to the metal door will be, nylon christmas tree type or metal spring wire type fasteners----jury is still out on that. I will give them a coat of urethane to waterproof them---then they go to the upholsterer who is putting new covers on my bucket seats, to be covered in maroon nuagahyde with a pattern in it.---if you are going to do this yourself, make full size cardboard patterns first, then trace around them onto the panel and cut it with sabre saw.