![]() ![]() After many years of waiting, these strips/bars are now available in reproduction from Mac's. They're included on new door panels, but if your using one of the caps, you'll need to reuse the ones you have or order new. Not many of these original strips are in very good condition after nearly sixty years and you will probably want to replace them. It helps to leave the panel in the sun first to help soften things up. The plastic chrome strips can be removed by prying/chiseling them off with a plastic putty kife. '62 coupe Corinthian white/ red interior w/ factory AC, pw, p seat. I got a replacement, but also wondering if any of you experts have done that project before and are there any tricks (Other than what is in the shop manual.) ![]() Does anyone know how to remove the plastic chrome, or if any suppliers sell these small parts?ĪLSO - the tip of the iceburg that started this project is the driver door outside button to open the door - fell in the door. The fit is quite good, but I'm struggling to remove the original little chrome parts along the bottom of the door, similar problem to an earlier poster to finally resorted to carpet on the bottom of the door. I found this: "The ACCU-Form(TM) door panel covers go over your cracked, damaged or unsightly doors, restoring it to a like new appearance" Its a formed plastic cover similar to a coverlay dash cover. I am trying to acknowledge my budget but my 62 coupe door panels are like too far gone. I have the tool but will never use it again. I wanted to say thank you to whomever suggested using a rag instead of the tool to remove the clip off the door lever and window crank. Thanks, great Forum! I spend more time here learning about my car than anywhere else on the Web. Has anybody ever done that and does it actually work? Somebody once suggested to me to cut the permanently attached 63 handle off and replace it with a 61 or 2 handle. Where did the 38* idea come from and why wouldn't the service manual show the handle in the factory installed position?ģ. I was planning to tilt my door lever up at a 38* angle as was discussed on a recent thread, but, I keep seeing Ford pictures in advertising and even in the service manual showing the handle at 90* degrees so I stuck with where it was when I took it off. It would make sense for them to hold the panel to something on the door but my door doesn't seem to have anything for them to screw to. The 63 interior door pull has 2 screws inside it. Cost me $7 in carpet.ĭoing the work has prompted a couple questions:ġ. I wasn't planning to enter it for judging anyway. Plus, the Monaco had carpet, so, I finally justified the modification to myself. Galaxies and Fairlanes of this era all seemed to have carpet kick panels and frankly, I think using plastic on the tbird was a really bad idea. I finally decided to do this while looking at old Fords at the Iola Car Show a couple weeks ago. $1300 for a pair of repro panels just isn't in the budget. I've been looking for used panels for a year but being a 63 there just isn't any chance. I replaced the lower panel on my doors this weekend and I wanted to share the result. ![]()
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