New build thread; 48 Plymouth

[falconvan]

One issue I hadn't addressed yet was door locks. The original door latches were junk so I put in some bear claws which worked great but lock mechanism wouldn't work the way the door was constructed. The original locks were in the door but I needed a locking handle. I found these early Ford locking handles on Ebay years ago and just got around to figuring out how to make them work. The lock mechanism is in the handle itself so I just ground down the handle mount so it would fit inside the Plymouth handle trim and pinned in. Seems to work great; next is to get the glass for the one piece front windows made and the power windows in.