Door Work

I'd removed the doors to access the hinges, which were sagging, at least on the driver's side. I sent the hinges to John Copello (www.copellos.biz) to have new hinge pins installed (John is a machinist and parts fabricator who does A-1 work). While the hinges were out I inspected the doors, and realized there was a not-small amount of rust and rust damage to the bottom edges of the doors. I proceeded to strip the doors mechanically (window regulator, etc.), and then paint stripped the door interiors and bottoms, both inside and out as you can see here. The passenger door was actually too far gone; I had another door from a coupe that I retrieved and stripped in this fashion. Here you can see two coats of MasterSeries Silver Primer applied. The rework included welding in a small patch panel on the passenger door, and doing some dolly and hammer work as well. I feel like I am going backwards, and not forwards at this point. Here it is 11/27, and only now is the car really ready for the wheels to be installed and the whole thing sent back out for final painting, two months past when I estimated.

But it looks solid, and there is that thing called 'peace of mind'.