Hi I was building a speedster but have had a change of heart and am now building a roadster pickup so I think a new thread is in order. I picked up some rusty swap meet bits and have spent many hours cutting and welding patches. the collection came with a cowl one very bad door and a repo rear section with 2 repo longer door skins. I am building the door inners from RHS and using original style locks. I don't have a set of original hinges, but I do have a set of Tudor? hinges. Can anyone see a reason why I can't modify them to fit? Below are some picks of what I have, I do have a roadster that I could measure off buts is about 3 hours away and I won't see it for a few weeks. Any advice is gratefully accepted. Brendan
Been welding up the holes in the hinges, this copper backed vice grip thing makes short work of the job.
That hinge on the bottom is from an open body A, notice how the closed body hinges above it on the body side are curved or bent backwards placing the pin in different centers. That will have some effect on things, so there may be some heating and bending in the future. Nice project. Bob
That’s a lot of work, I’m piecing together a roadster pickup can myself to sell off to fund my 34 truck build. I ended up buying a set of open hinges from Early Times Autos, I think I payed around $200 for the set.
Wrong style of hinge for a rpu. The position of the hinge pin is absolutly critical to get the correct swing of the door. The bottom hinges should be a different length. Get the right hinge.
I hear you, however I had these hinges so I am giving it a go, I did drill the top hinge at the same place as the one piece of roadster hinge I have. I then used a rod through the top and bottom hinge to line up the pivots. I am trying to buy as little as possible not that I couldn’t find the funds, but I like using what I have and building stuff. If it doesn’t work I will buy some and it keeps me out of the pub.
You might try shimming the cowl at A-post...this should bring the back edge of your door up to better meet at the rear quarter panel. It will also even out the door gap at the rear edge of the door.
Door skins on, that’s a lot of tap tap tapping. Pretty happy with them but I think I will have to move the hinges in a bit, considering slotting the hinges in the doors and making them adjustable.
could someone please provide me with a measurement across where the the red strap is on the outside. I need to build an inner structure for the rear tub section, I would like the measurement at floor level as well but I know that is difficult to measure with a seat. Thanks in advance. Brendan
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