Painted Mirrors, Drilled Hole in Door Panel

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by knucklebusted, Feb 3, 2019.

  1. knucklebusted

    knucklebusted Well-Known Member

    After selling everyone all those 3D printed sport mirror gaskets, I finally had time to get my mirrors painted and put on my 71 350 GS. I'm not a painter and I just used a rattle can but I did wet sand and polish them a bit. The car had some nasty huge base plate chrome mirrors on it that I took off. They left an area way bigger than the sport mirror gasket would cover so I wet sanded and buffed it out as best I could. It isn't perfect but then again this is a driver quality car. You can see from the buff rag how oxidized the old 1980s paint is.

    I even made a template for drilling a hole in a perfectly good door panel from my 70 Stage 1 car. Not sure if it is exactly correct but it fits in the hole in the inner door skin so I'm calling it a win. I was also short a trim clip that holds the mirror remote to the surround. I made one from an old spring I had laying around. It works for now.

    And now for the pictures.

    Here's what I started with.
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    I also know what the original color looked like now. I'm glad it is red now.
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    Painted.
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    Buffing the door and mirrors, notice the contrasting shades.
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    Mirrors mounted. Now is a good time to point out the aftermarket Camaro brackets I bought did not fit as well as my original 1974 mirror brackets I got out of a junkyard in 1980. I had to tweak them a bit for optimal fit. The driver side was spot on.
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  2. knucklebusted

    knucklebusted Well-Known Member

    Then I tackled the door panel and remote surround. I hate cutting up a perfectly good door panel but a 19mm hole saw didn't do too much damage. Be careful of the stitching. I nearly unraveled the stuff.

    Here's the template I made from the 70 door panel.
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    Then the cutting and drilling began. Measure twice cut once.
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    Finished product!
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  3. DasRottweiler

    DasRottweiler -BuickAddict-

    Looking good!
    Thanks again for taking the time and effort to repo the gaskets. JIM/Rott
     
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  4. copperheadgs1

    copperheadgs1 copperheadgs1

    That looks like 71 Lime Green. Awesome color.
     
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  5. 12lives

    12lives Control the controllable, let the rest go

    Great job!
     
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