This evening another important job was carried
out; fitting the doors. As this is definitely a two man job I asked a friend to
assist me here. Glad I did! But before the doors could be fitted, the threads of the studs on
the hinges had to be cleaned. That was a rather
straightforward but time consuming job.
With the threads cleaned of the excess paint I
first took a sidestep; trial fitting one of the door handles. I think the
combination of the bright orange, black striping and all black door handles
looks very good!
Back to the main job of fitting the doors. We
started with the passenger door. And it didn’t take very long before it was in
place and correctly aligned. Sadly the driver’s door turned out to be slightly problematic. It didn’t
fit correctly in its designated place. That is when I remembered this was the
door from my DHC that was removed after the problems with the paint some years
ago. And when the door from was fitted I forgot the B-post grill and the rain
gutter finish. And that’s where the door frame touched. But after moving the
grill and the rain gutter finish back as far as possible we had enough
clearance with decent shut lines (for a Speke car) 😜 But overall an evening well spent!
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