Door Skins

GEdge · 01-25-2000, 06:25 PM

Anyone have experience using reproduction door skins? How does it compare with cropping and welding sheet metal? Seems like it would be cheaper to buy the skins than to pay the labor for reworking extensively rusted exterior door areas.

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Gregory J. Edge
Ojai, CA
1965 Mustang

Rev · 01-25-2000, 10:01 PM

GEdge, It just depends on how extensively your doors are rust damaged. I repaired minor rust damage in the lower front corners of my '66 doors myself using home made patch panels (3"X6") brazed in with a small torch. The patch was then filled with a thin amount of Bondo and carefully leveled. If you're not doing the job yourself, I'd get an estimate from a trusted body shop, and take their advice. My $.02.

Rev

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'66 Coupe, 306, windage
tray, TRW flat tops, 351W
heads,pocket ported, 268
CC hydraulic cam, R tip
R's, Edelbrock Performer,
600 CFM Holley vac. secs.,
Mallory Unilite, coil, fuel
pump, Tri-Y headers, 2 1/2 "
custom pipes, 3 chamber
Flows, stock C-4, 3.25
Currie built 8" rear
and whatever else I
forgot. 14.17 e.t., 97 mph
1/4 mi.

01-25-2000, 06:25 PM	#1
GEdge Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Ojai, CA USA Posts: 2	Door Skins Anyone have experience using reproduction door skins? How does it compare with cropping and welding sheet metal? Seems like it would be cheaper to buy the skins than to pay the labor for reworking extensively rusted exterior door areas. ------------------ Gregory J. Edge Ojai, CA 1965 Mustang

01-25-2000, 10:01 PM	#2
Rev Registered Member Join Date: Nov 1998 Location: Houston, Tx. Posts: 3,887	GEdge, It just depends on how extensively your doors are rust damaged. I repaired minor rust damage in the lower front corners of my '66 doors myself using home made patch panels (3"X6") brazed in with a small torch. The patch was then filled with a thin amount of Bondo and carefully leveled. If you're not doing the job yourself, I'd get an estimate from a trusted body shop, and take their advice. My $.02. Rev ------------------ '66 Coupe, 306, windage tray, TRW flat tops, 351W heads,pocket ported, 268 CC hydraulic cam, R tip R's, Edelbrock Performer, 600 CFM Holley vac. secs., Mallory Unilite, coil, fuel pump, Tri-Y headers, 2 1/2 " custom pipes, 3 chamber Flows, stock C-4, 3.25 Currie built 8" rear and whatever else I forgot. 14.17 e.t., 97 mph 1/4 mi.