Building Custom Door Panels

Be sure to mark all holes for the clips and door handles.

Building custom door panels.

Cut the template with a utility knife. Stretch method and bumper repair filler. Door panels for billy s durango. Building a show quality interior to match the rest of your build can be a daunting task.

However with a little instruction and a broad selection of car interior upholstery parts the task is made easier than you might think. But using some readily available components you can achieve professional looking results. Interior doors are generally 80 inches tall and 1 3 8 inches thick exterior doors are generally thicker. Mark simpson demonstrates on a 1962 oldsmobile door panel how to create custom car door panels using abs board and pre sewn top stitch panels from ez boy interiors.

Clamps clamps and more clamps interior doors are usually 1 3 8 thick. This film will teach you how to design construct and upholster your own auto door panels. The door frame is built using loose tenons or dominoes with a panel that floats in a groove in the frame. If you want to construct a panel without using an old one tape kraft paper to the inside of the door and trace the pattern onto the paper.

This is part one of hagan street rods modular door panel system. For most classic car restorers sewing together upholstery is an unlearned skill. Place one 48 by 48 by 1 8 inch hardboard on a worktable. Share pics and vid on our fb at.

What methods did you use. This series of videos will walk you through building custom interior door panels. Pairs of 6 5s and an 8. Set an old door panel on the hardboard and trace its shape.

How to design build custom door panels produced by national academy of mobile electronics founder michael breault of san diego ca 1994 copyright owner.