Drivers Side Roadster DOOR Arrived Today

[Roadster62]

Won a door on eBay last week and it arrived today. Really happy with it. has a great inner bottom and the outside isnt bad either. It will get the bottom cut off and allow me to repair the one I've had for years with a rotten bottom. I've got all the body parts, just need time and motivation. Note the inner ribs on the rotten door the black one is smooth.

 

[Chris in WNC]

just curious- why are you cutting and repairing the old one?

why not just remove it and install the new one?

what am I missing here?

 

[Tom Wesenberg]

I was wondering the same thing?

 

[Purdy Swoft]

Me two.

 

[BruceUpstate NY]

So now he has a good bottom to go with his good top!?

 

[zzlegend]

Huh?

 

[Roadster62]

The "New" door is junk except for the perfect inner bottom and the outer bottom, it's a parts door. This '30 Roadster project is a lifetime project of mine, found the body in 1962, sold it and got it back 25 years later with NOTHING done to it. Every part of this project has a story, the drivers door came from a friend in 1973-74 and I'll think of him every time I open and close it. Every part has a memory of someone, sadly, many of the people have passed on, they were all part of my "car hobby life", and will be remembered once everything is assembled. This is more than just a car to me.

just curious- why are you cutting and repairing the old one?

why not just remove it and install the new one?

what am I missing here?

 

[Chris in WNC]

cars that return.....

sounds a little familiar.

bought a 30 Roadster project car from a guy in Mansfield Ohio in 1991.
it was going to be my speedster.

after a few years of it sitting around, I realized it was unlikely to happen.
sold at a small profit it to a guy in Brooksville FL who was all excited about restoring it.

about 10-12 years later I see it on a trailer with a For Sale sign in Jacksonville in the same condition it was in when I had it, but at a much lower price.

decided to wait a few days to make them an offer, but when I went back it was gone......

 

[Roadster62]

Drivers door arrived back home from the blaster (American Dry Stripping, in Milford, Ct.), just put a coat of Zink chromate primer on it, will start planning the cut lines.