Making my Regal upper door panels

[565bbchevy]

Since my new interior is a shade off from my faded stock interior I am making new upper door panels with extra material that came with my seats, the rears I already made so I could get everything else to this point.

You can see my stock one on top and the new one below and I still haven't decided if I am going to completely black out the door handle or leave some chrome and I happened to a good amount of carbon fiber vinyl just to get an idea.

I started but striping off all of the material after carefully removing the inner felt and lock ferrule and with all the holes left I decided to glue thin cardboard over the top and run it to the top edge of the metal, I found cereal boxes worked really well. lol

From there I glued a layer of felt to give it a smooth base.

Then I laid out a simple design and used 1/4" thick hard foam and after that I glued those on.

And from there I carefully glued on my material and used a 1" roller to get the edges tight so as of right now this is what it looks like until I decide what the final look of the handle will be and I still have to remount the inner felt.

 

[565bbchevy]

I took a spare handle and sprayed it black to get an idea of how that would look, might just go this route for the handle.

 

[TURNA]

Very nicely done!!

 

[Turbo Zach]

You made that look too easy! Looks good. I am curious as to what you are going to do with the wood grain on the dash?

 

[565bbchevy]

You made that look too easy! Looks good. I am curious as to what you are going to do with the wood grain on the dash?

I have already blacked out all of the woodgrain on the dash.

 

[565bbchevy]

So I finished the upper door panels and decided to keep the chrome on the handle and flat black vinyl on the woodgrain, I figured there is enough chrome still in the interior.

I also relocated the power window switches to the lower half of the door, the harness works well in this spot also.

 

[565bbchevy]

And here it is when I was doing the mock ups deciding what route to go with the handle.

 

[HAFROD]

Nice job man

 

[565bbchevy]

Nice job man

Thanks, I figure they look a little better than my faded stock ones that were a shade off anyways.
Plus I like having a door speaker up high.

 

[O. D. Showtime]

Nice work on the door panels.....they look great!