Mopar Muscle Association UK

hi all. here is my door pics. again I hope you like them. and find them interesting and even give you inspiration to start on your long term project you have been meaning to do. reggie

here is some more

as you can see. there has been lots done. but lots more to do. I look at this kind of restoration work as though you are doing a jigsaw puzzle. each piece fitted is one step closer to the finish. reggie

now in the last you can see I have made the lower door skin. and am about to repair the lower inner door shell lip. I wire brushed this area on with an electric brush. and welded in the repair. and primed it in red oxide. il paint a gloss on top of the red oxide before I replace the lower door skin I made earlier.

Good work going on there, I'm doing the same on a 73 model

hi dave. yes I saw your pics. I hope its all going well. I have 69 doors on my charger. when I bought these off dunc. I thought id repair them and sell them on, but having found they are proper 68 doors. well I just had to do them for my own car. theres more to do. so soon I will post some more up when I have more pics. your car is doing well. keep it up mate n don't stop. reggie

Great work and I am gone learn something here, keep it up

Fabulous work, you are right about the jigsaw puzzle. Seems ages since I was there doing similar.

thank you chaps. glad you like them. il be doing some more on the door tomorrow. so I hope il be able to post some more pics up too. I have just helped my son buy his first mopar. he is 23. lucky boy. il be having to restore that too I should think. ooh n yes you may have guessed it. he is having a 68 charger too. should be here in 4 weeks. reggie

ok all. I have some more pics to post.

now the inner door bottom is painted ready to offer up the lower outer door skin repair panel. note here its easier to pre drill the holes for plug welding before bending the reveal over onto the door bottom. as the angle of the door shell will prevent the use of a drill. note also the reveal is copied the same as was original. so the finished job will be in keeping with how it would of looked when originally made. eg the cut outs are in the same place for bending around the door shell

ok il now find a pic with the reveal all folded over

ok im now going to come back after I have reduced the file size of some other photo s later. reggie

Good work there and handy for me too as I'm also planning on tackling the same this weekend

good on you mate, remember to keep a dolly on the lower door skin edge as you fold it over. and keep the door shell bottom and skin held together as you gradually fold the reveal over. on the arch section of the door I only used a 5m/m reveal to help fold the arched door skin edge over. then welded to it the arched sections to make the full reveal width. hope I have a pic ready to post showing this. reggie