Please give me your point of view: I found a really nice and clean, rust free, complete 1963 dodge-330 with a Poly 318 engine AND also found a 1964 dodge 330, 318 poly, also a very clean and complete car. Both cars are 4door cars , fully functional. The owners want 1,000 and 1,500 us. dlls for each car, which I think is a good opportunity since you dont see to many of these cars. I have to tell you that I LOVE 62-67 early mopars. (i currently own several). Anyway, I´ll buy both cars, but the QUESTION is: in your oppinion, shoud I make them 2-door sedans or just leave them as 4doors? Yes or not and WHY? What do you think? THANKS!!... Your answer will be very helpful. One thing to consider is that is relatively easy to do the change. Here are 2 pics of the real cars i´m talking about. <!-- / message -->
Seems like a hell of alotta work to convert them from 4 doors to 2 doors. Resale wise I don't think the effort would be worth the actual money you would get in return...
Of course I would do it in a heartbeat but you need to locate the donor cars first. They might be tougher to find. If you can locate the parts to do it then there's no reason not to. It's not that hard.
it is a fairly easy project. Basically, all you need are the doors from a two door car and a whole bunch of talent. This subject just came up yesterday and my welder felt he could do this with relative ease. Guess it all depends what you are after. The biggest value would be to make the resulting two door into a nostalgic super stocker.
A faily easy project? Oh boy, that's a wild understatement. If you have plenty of free time, reasonable skills, or an unliminted budget for fabrication, yeah, it's easy. The only reason to do it is if you simply have the car and want to just because you can. There's no financial reason to convert a 4 door, it has to be a labor of love. Not that it hasn't been done, lots of neat threads here of builds doing just that, but it's a ton of work, you'd be better off just getting a two door body. I'll add that I have a little experience in the matter, I've done a 4dr to to 2dr, and built several "phantom" converts from sedans and coupes. I didn't build them for anybody but myself, and did it just because I can. I've had fun, but it's not a job for the faint of heart. Brian
I know of a 4 dr. '67 Belvedere currently being converted to a 2 Dr. Hdtp. This guy found his old HS '67 Belvedere 2 Dr. but the bottom was gone out of it so he found a clean SW 4 Dr. and is basically replacing the 4 dr. upper sheetmetal from the cowl back with what was left of his old 2 Dr. I would have just done the 4 dr. but in his case there was strong sentimental attachment to the 2 Dr. and this was easier than tryin to piece in everyting the 2 Dr. needed. It all depends on how badly you want a 2 dr., I wouldn't do it myself but then I always liked hopped up more doors.
thing is you'd need a 2 door parts car in order to do it right. someone here did a post on converting an earlier model mopar 1960 (?) maybe you could find it in search. fairly easy wouldn't be the term I'd use... maybe fairly straightforward, since there would be no major sheetmetal fab, just cutting parts off and welding/bolting parts from the donor. if the 4 doors are nice i'd just leave them. for me all old cars are cool no matter the door count.
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