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Start collecting the necessary pieces by looking at suburbans/panels for sale and taking pics or at car shows or in the gallery here. Then you will know what the parts look like. It may take a year or more to find parts for sale or you may get lucky. If you give up on finding all the parts, sell the ones you have, they will go up in value. Ebay is by far your best bet, then "wanted" forums like we have here. I'll keep my eye open for you. Like you said , some of the doors will have much of what you need, maybe even the checks. My experience is that you have to sometimes buy more than you need to get the parts, then sell back the unused stuff. You may buy 3 or 4 doors to get it all then sell the doors. It takes a lot of work to build a Suburban or panel and get the stuff behind the front doors! Be advised that Suburban and Panel Checks ARE NOT THE SAME. Everything else back there is the same. When your done, selling your clamshell stuff will help get some of your maney back. A good "swing light" can be a 75-$100 or more. All Suburban/panel specific parts are getting harder and harder to find. I don't know what year you have but the rear door light that Squeeze showed you is 57 58 59, the 55-56 is different and goes back to 50? about. AS far as rear fender lights, the lens everyone has are "stepped". These are called 57 lenses and are the only ones available in the aftermarket. 55-56 red lenses were not stepped. I have the only known pair of NOS non-stepped lenses in the universe.