So a-whatta you think? You like? You no-like? You no-care?

Here-sa onna da car

Oh my god those pics are huge!! Sorry

I don't even want to tell you how easy they were to make........

Very Nice

Looks goooooood !!!

They look great!! To bad you didn't have some of that cow skin.

SWEEEEET!
JM

Yeah, very sweet, Are you going to match the rest of the interior to the door panels?

Wow, those are almost exactly what I had in mind for my panels.

Do you have a pattern or something I could bum?

Those look very good! I was thinking about doing something similar. I think you should tell us how easy those were to make. A step by step of the project would be fantastic!

Instructions is what we need, i.e. a Tech Article for the "Info" section.

Great work !

I need door pulls, mine are shot, anyone know where I can find them?

Step by step instructions, and to make it easier on us why don't you provide the material too?? While your at it just me me a set!! Or four.

THose look really nice... great work. Are those heat pleats or sewn?

Thanks for the compliments

I'd like to do the seats next, but that would be a pretty big step - I have a line on a junk set to hack up, and it might be a long-term project, because my original seats are in pretty good shape right now.

I'd be happy to put together a 'how-to' post, I've got more pictures of how I did it and I'll put something together next week (I'm going camping tomorrow and may get snowed in beofre then )

For now:

$9 - Marine vinyl and 1/2 inch foam from fabric store using discount coupon from newspaper

$6 for 1/2 and 1/4 inch staples

$4 for thin (balsa) wood strips to replace old ones from top pad section

$30 for the shoe repair lady to stitch the pleats

If you have a sewing machine, you can save the $30 bucks. Even if you screw things up, the material is sooo cheap you can keep trying. I was thinking of making them and selling them, I dunno - It's pretty simple, anyone can do it.

HOLD on nowm, are those speakers in the door panel??? You rotten S.O.B......... I still want a pair

nice job!

Oh great, even more competition for door panels

JK, they look great. The 1/2" foam may have been over kill, though. I am making a set like yours for a client right now. Red-beards look like that, and I will likely be going the same route. Are the pleats sewn through the panel?

Could I get a pattern for the panel? I want to do something similar but use some aluminum I have instead of particle board...

You guys are killin me


Ze pleats are sewn in, with a piece of cotton fabric over the back so the stitches don't pull through.

Hey scottyb these were the original panels from the car so I figured what the heck, nothing else on the car is really original anymore anyhoo. I DO have a set without holes that I'm gonna redo as well, but there are some cracks in them that I hafta fix first.

I'll load the pattern pics and pleat patterns next week from home

those are dead-sexy beasts!

Nice

I haven't torn any door panels apart, but what did you do with the thin Balsa wood strips?

Coolness! Those look great!


M

nice job

You got me thinking. I might try doing the pleats with basketweave and the rest solid to tie it into the seats!!!

Looks pretty nice!