1964 dodge 2 door conversion

[brandon64]

I started the conversion this morning, I got the doors pulled, the B-pillar removed and the new door hung on the passenger side. Now for the hard part lol. The progress on this project will be slow, it is my first time doing one, and I don't have alot of spare time. Tonight I plan on staying up late and trimming the 1/4 panel and fitting it to the car.

 

[Black63]

Going to be watching this! Keep at it!!!

 

[brandon64]

I've made a good bit of progress. I decided on using the rear door as the filler panel for the 1/4. It's much less rusty, and its already shaped to fit. Last night I drilled all the spot welds off of the piece I cut from the donor car and removed the inner panel and the door jam from it. Today I trimmed it where it would line up with the door correctly, and I gutted the rear door. Removed the window channel piece from it, and cut the skin off of it. I have it marked and ready to cut but the battery went dead on the saw. As soon as it's charged, I'll be back at it again. I hope to have everything fitted, have the inside sanded and painted and ready to weld in by the end of the day, I'll post some more pics tomorrow.

 

[brandon64]

made a little progress and lost motivation so I called it quits for the night. Here's a few more pics.

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

nice job. my buddy did a conversion on a 62 savoy. he said it looked harder than it actually was. keep up the good work.

 

[Donny]

Wow!!!!

 

[Ron 73]

Good luck on this project Brandon! The undertaking of projects like this is unreal... Looking forward to following along.

 

[poly1963]

looks great go man go:headbang:

 

[brandon64]

I got about an hour and a half in tonight after work. I wire wheeled and sanded the inner 1/4 piece and shot it in urethane primer, Then I rattle canned white the inside part. No sense in wasting the good paint on a part you never see.

 

[brandon64]

I spent some time this evening fitting/trimming and aligning everything. It looks pretty good. I also sanded and painted the rear part of the door jam on the car. And I cut the door handle raised portion on the rear door skin and cut a patch panel for it from the 2 door 1/4. I'll bring the door skin and patch panel to work tomorrow and weld it in on my lunch break. I ordered the parts I need to build a phase converter so I can hook up my welder but they have not came in yet. If they don't come in this week, I'll see if I can borrow the welder from work and get this side finished.

 

[brandon64]

I got the window channel pulled from the front door and fitted into the new door. I'm going to wait to weld this in until I get some glass so I know it will fit right. I had to remove a bracket from the front of the door, and remove a section from the back of the door as well to get the window channel in the new door. The other day I used a piece of the 2 door 1/4 to make the patch pieces for where the door handle was, and got it welded up.

 

[b-bodyboy]

This is awesome! hats off to you sir.

 

[poly1963]

the quarter window frames are held in by screws in side the channel before the rubber goes in and then you use seam sealer is my understanding hope this helps

 

[brandon64]

the quarter window frames are held in by screws in side the channel before the rubber goes in and then you use seam sealer is my understanding hope this helps

I was wondering about that, The other thing I was wondering was how much you cut out of the rear door window channel at the top and added to the front window channel. I don't have any 2 door side glass to stick in there and make sure it will fit. thanks

 

[brandon64]

thanks for the kind and inspiring words guys. It really helps motivate me to keep the progress going on. I'm surprised I got this much done on it in a week and still managed to get 40 hours in at work. I brought the welder from work home tonight, it's a POS 110volt flux core welder with only high and low as the heat setting and fast and slow as the speed setting, but it should get the job done. Hopefully I'll get the passenger side finished this weekend.

 

[brandon64]

also 1 more thing, I decided on keeping track of money and time spent on this project. I payed 500 bucks for this car with the rusty two door donor car, I got 260 bucks in scrap metal for the donor car after I parted it, and I've sold 475 bucks worth of parts from it, and I've spent 40 bucks in supplies on it so far. So I'm actually ahead about 200 bucks but it is still the beginning.


Money spent = -195
Time spent = 25 hours

 

[brandon64]

Today I cut the B pillar down and fitted it to the car. I found that the drivers door had it's glass intact, so I pulled it and stuck it in the passenger side. So I found that the window channel needs 7 1/2 inches to be added, and the B pillar sits 12 degrees rearward of vertical. I got everything tacked in place and the door still lines up well and opens/shuts beautifully. I also got the rear window channel cut down and mocked up, and I installed the rear window mechanism from the two door hard top. I think it will work but I'm not sure, I'm going to try and cut the 4 door rear glass down and see if I can bolt it in and make it roll up and down.


Total money spent = -$195

Total time spent = 32 hours

 

[howco70]

One of my favorite cars. Awesome project. I did the same to a 35 Willys sedan. After the first cut, I said, "what did I do now"? Mine turned out great, as will yours. Will follow your efforts.

 

[brandon64]

I got the 1/4 window channel fitted and welded together, and I got the B pillar all the way welded in. I had to piece together the middle part where it meets the door jam. And I patched some bad rust at the lower part where it meets the rocker.

Money spent = -$180

Time spent = 41 hours

 

[theman440]

Keep it up!