Technical Anyone assembled a brookville 3-window body

So what happens if your body is still a half inch (or even just a quarter inch) still squished through the door opening? You’ve built everything else solid and now will just slice up the doors to fit? A well built car is done by minuscule fractions of an inch.

If it was mine I’d go for those original doors posted above and do the necessary repairs.

 

It’s easy to spend someone else’s 7k.

 

I will make the doors fit the body. Here is where I’m at so far.

 

Does Brookville have a pair on a body in a showroom they might loan out? Or a feeler out for someone reasonably close that you could rent a pair to see how they fit before you go much farther? Just thinking out loud. What a dilemma you got, good luck.

 

A guy I know built a whole 32 3 window body in Lazze metal shaping class, including doors
Mabee you could contact Lazze and he or one of his students could make you a pair

 

Here’s a couple in progress pics

 

Or even a kit of parts, or at least the hardest to make pieces, the deep drawn door tops for instance.

Chris

 

It looks like you plug welded the A pillars. When the body is done and the doors are ready to go in we squeeze that A Pillar to help set the door gap then weld.

 

So you’re saying he welded something too soon?

 

I knew about the two piece A-pillars not being fully welded so the inner door gaps could be dialed in. Ben told me about this feature.
But after careful examining an original 32 3-window, I decided to weld that part.

thanks for the tip.

 

Between supply issues and assembly issues, it's a mess and I really feel badly for you. The outlook is grim for getting them any time soon from Brookville-and if they have 18 cars waiting for doors and can't get them,can they survive-and what then if they can't? There was a suggestion earlier about 'glass doors as a temporary fix.. Maybe you could get them, then find an original steel car close by to compare and modify them. These are available- https://www.ebay.com/itm/224566258300

 

Damn! I just went through this entire thread. I thought I had issues, and was worried about spending a few hundred dollars here and there. Lol!
I will say, looks like a real challenge assembling a body that is in pieces, and trying to get things to align without some type of jig. Wishing you luck finding doors.

 

I'm hoping Andy Glause here in Nebraska won't mind my dropping his name, a top-notch fabricator that was initially involved in the 3w venture prior to Brookville & as I recall he built six hand crafted bodies, might be worth a call but as with all sources worth their salt it may require you to take a number. I know the 'Iron trap garage' also has a 3w on the back burner, Good luck!

 

If you have not seen for sale

 

Thanks for the tip. Yes, I’ve seen them and talked with mrmerc. I will be at Brookville on the 11th talking to Kenny about my doors. I’m picking up my 2” longer hood there. If the Brookville doors are year off, I will buy a set of these early reproductions. They will be a lot of work making hinge pockets and everything else for them.