Continued working on stuff that is not stock....cutting the rear doors down and addressing the mechanism. Unfortunately, I apparently was so focused that I didn't take that many pics.
Like all the rest of the body, the lower portions of the rear doors were very rusty. They had been patched by a previous owner but the work was really questionable. So I cut off the entire lower portion of both doors. I then used my english wheel to form the outer lower skin panels from flat sheet but I had to make a few wood bucks to fab the lower inner panels and I had to make them in multiple pieces due to the complexity. I will still need to do some further welding around the perimeter of the door edges but I will do that when I do the door gaps.
I then cut off the upper portion above the body band to match the side panels on the tub. In order to keep the bead on the inner panel I had to do some splicing/sectioning to keep it looking correct. I then again made a wood buck to hammer-form the upper caps for the doors to close them out.
While I was working this area, I searched online and found a stainless trailer license plate bracket and light that looked appropriate for the truck. So I fabbed some threaded steel bungs to weld into the outer LH door skin. I took a pic the other day to show what it looks like since I did not document this effort. (Now I gotta find a '49 tag instead of a '52 tag at some point)
1949 Chevy Panel Truck A Project Journal I'm old but I make up for it by being immature.
