Making Hot Rod Door Panels

The cardboard cut pretty easy with a few passes of a new utility knife.

Making hot rod door panels.

Most factory cardboard panels have long since rotted away or are. This series of videos will walk you through building custom interior door panels. 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. Building a show quality interior to match the rest of your build can be a daunting task.

Upholster door panels without sewing by using this layering technique. For most classic car restorers sewing together upholstery is an unlearned skill. A false floor with a hinged door was constructed. Door panels can be a real pain to build when you consider the types of materials available in sheet form.

However with a little instruction and a broad selection of car interior upholstery parts the task is made easier than you might think. They are vacuum molded and ready to be painted for a finished look. This film will teach you how to design construct and upholster your own auto door panels. Add a logos or designs if desired.

This is part one of hagan street rods modular door panel system. Cowl boards are a compressed waterproof cardboard primarily used in older vehicle applications. But using some readily available components you can achieve professional looking results. The project started off with cabinet building 101.

This allowed the stuff to pretty much remain where it was under the false floor. To make the holes i used a gasket punch at first and for the larger holes but for small door panel clip holes i just drilled 1 2 holes like the original had and cleaned the edge with a sharp knife.