Custom door panel ideas?

[tommie]

tweed has my vote for my budget!!

[WigglesTheHoly]

damn i think I'm going to take my door panels and dashpad in and have them covered in tweed that looks pretty damn good!

[mrenj23]

I did a little fiberglass work to make it different then got it covered with vinyl.

[tucsonjwt]

Originally Posted by dbmx66

i took my stock panels out, got a sheet of 1/16th aluminum, cut a rectangle, used a mill to cut a square bore for the door handle and a little hole for the window crank, made some mounting tabs out of aluminum, bolted the tabs to the door, bolted the panel to the tabs, nice a simple, itll match my aluminum sheet metal dash, were fitting in right now.

Can you post some pix on your door panels and dash? I would much prefer a metal dash in my 83 C20 over any kind of padded dash. Desert heat kills all non-metal dashes where I live. Thanks.

[hotrod_991]

Originally Posted by mrenj23

I did a little fiberglass work to make it different then got it covered with vinyl.

Is that door suicide? I stared at the picture for atleast 10 minutes lil confused cause it looks like its the passanger door but everything is on the wrong end of the door hahahaha.

[dv8customs]

It is suicide

[nbpro]

the frame was made out of 2x4's with the edges dado'd, 3/8 in. plywood attached with screws. Foam added with batting on top of that, then covered with vinyl from Hancock Fabrics. Originally was covered with some crap from Walmart, but was easily stained. To mount them to the truck, we used a metal yard stick attached across the top of the wood frame that slides down where your window sweeps are on the door, and two screws in the bottom. , the handle is screwed in from the back. The handle itself was rescued from the dumpster. It's actually a top rail from a baby crib. Paint is Duplicolor Ground Coat Metalcast with skull stencils and Duplicolor Smoke Metalcast with red Metalcast sprayed over that with three coats of clear

Cost total I think was $35. And most of that was the new material.

[mrhino]

ttt i know its a old thread but maybe there is some more new ideas out there.

[jitteryguy]

I never realized how many people had RodDoor's panel's. that's what I have for my Dually although I've yet to get them cover'd. still in the box.

[trivon56]

I am curious to how hard would it be to cover those rod doors by the average joe. Has anyone done there own before.
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[S10Fan]

Originally Posted by trivon56

I am curious to how hard would it be to cover those rod doors by the average joe. Has anyone done there own before.
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I covered mine with tweed and painted the arm rest to match the dash and steering column.

As you can see from my earlier post, I changed the look to tweed from the ostrich material. Much better on the second attempt. LOL

[trivon56]

Lol ok nice. I have the same door panels but I just can't see myself paying someone to do a job that i could do myself. Ur panels look good though.
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