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Hey guys,
I'm restoring a 65 chevelle 300 deluxe 2 door post, and the right side of the car needs some body work. I'm gonna need a door skin and a lower quarter skin. Does anyone know what (if any) aftermarket quarter and door skin will fit this car?? The fact that it has the post window has me wondering if the typical goodmark, etc sheetmetal will fit.
Almost every aftermarket chevelle parts company has some sort of door and quarter skin, but none of them seem to know if their parts will fit my particular car.


Thanks for any info, guys.
 
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I just installed the '65 door skins on my El Camino which I beleive has the same sort of window frame as your 300 deluxe. If you look at your current door skin where the outer window seal goes, you will see that there is a small section at the rear post that closes the gap by about ~1/8" . Since the new door skins go straight back, you will want to keep that little filler part installed, and you can weld your new skin to that little section so it looks original.
Otherwise, nothing else was different. I's strongly suspect the available skins will fit, but hopefully someone else with a post car will chime in.
 
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Rich-L79 said:
All 2-door doors from coupes, convertibles, 2-door posts, 2-door wagons and El Caminos use the same door skins.
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Are you sure about that? I don't think the section to the right of the blue line in the picture is on all the '65 door skins?

It certainly wasn't on the skins I purchased, so I assumed that the little shape would only have been for cars with window frames. For a non framed doors I would expect the skin to continue along the blue line to make room for the outer window seals since the window goes to the end of the door.

Again, when I used the aftermarket skins, I cut at the blue line, leaving the area to the right intact, and then welded the skin at the blue line.

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did you just get that off ebay-there was one on there with R/S damage-it was ident. to the one i restored
i just used the reg quart. skins, worked ok-if you need the panal behind the rear glass, your out of luck
my doors were good, so cant help you there
 
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Post door skins do have the small difference Tony points out, and IIRC it has the same thing at the front too where it joins the window post at the front. Just do as Tony said and be sure to save that part from the original. Also, the reinforcement piece at the front top (that comes welded to an NOS door skin) is different. But I don't think the aftermarket skins have that piece anyway and you just reuse the original.

Quarters are different above the body line second from the top. If you buy coupe skins you'll have to cut them and only replace below that line. Sedan quarters are taller above that line.

Good luck!
 
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I was specifically talking about original doors and door skins. I wouldn't have clue one about reproduction doors skin, I should have been more clear. However, if an aftermarket door skin will work on a 2-door hardtop door, there is no reason it cannot easily work on a window framed door too.

I've known numerous people that took El Camino doors to make 2-door hardtop doors and vice versa. As pointed out, the biggest issue there is accommodating the use or non-use of the window frame depending on your needs and your source piece but it is certainly not a big deal. It is real common and real easy to use a window framed door to replace a different window framed door such as putting an El Camino door on a 2-door wagon. The only issue there is to swap the window frames as they are different shapes and use different shaped side glass.
 
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jeffschevelle said:
Also, the reinforcement piece at the front top (that comes welded to an NOS door skin) is different. But I don't think the aftermarket skins have that piece anyway and you just reuse the original.
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On the Dynacorn skins that I recieved, the driver side had the reinforcement piece already installed along with the two side mirror mounting holes pre drilled, however there was no reinforcement or mirror holes on the passenger side.
 
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Tony65 said:
Are you sure about that? I don't think the section to the right of the blue line in the picture is on all the '65 door skins?

It certainly wasn't on the skins I purchased, so I assumed that the little shape would only have been for cars with window frames. For a non framed doors I would expect the skin to continue along the blue line to make room for the outer window seals since the window goes to the end of the door.

Again, when I used the aftermarket skins, I cut at the blue line, leaving the area to the right intact, and then welded the skin at the blue line.

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This is true. We had to do the same when we put door skins on the 300 post above. It the tiny differences like this that set a well done post apart from the sea of hardtops.....Very few people realize what it takes to get parts to fit on these.
 
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