I was thinking of shaving the door handles off my 80 El Camino. Has anyone have any tips for me before I start filling my holes
Thanks Dave

Well, to start, you'll need at least a pair of 35lb door pulls. I did mine, was a real PITA getting strong enough pullers.

Yours look great what did you fill the holes in with?
Thanks Dave

sheet metal and body filler.

Did you mig the sheet metal in? Thats what im planing but keep hearing horor stories about warping the panels ( HATE TO DAMAGE GOOD DOORS)LOL. :oops:

Trucks TV did a show on custom metalwork the weekend of June 7th. One of the mods they did was shaved door handles. They did a pretty good overview about how to do it and pointed out some things a lot of folks miss the first time they do one, like contour-matching the patch piece.

They MIGged it in using little spotwelds moving around and around the patch until they had a complete 360-degree bead to hold down warping, then ground it down with a flap wheel for the same reason. Still needed a little hammer and dolly work, but not much.

According to their schedule, it runs again the weekend of August 23rd.

If you want to wait that long... :-D

Trucks TV did a show on custom metalwork the weekend of June 7th. One of the mods they did was shaved door handles. They did a pretty good overview about how to do it and pointed out some things a lot of folks miss the first time they do one, like contour-matching the patch piece.

They MIGged it in using little spotwelds moving around and around the patch until they had a complete 360-degree bead to hold down warping, then ground it down with a flap wheel for the same reason. Still needed a little hammer and dolly work, but not much.

According to their schedule, it runs again the weekend of August 23rd.

If you want to wait that long... :-D

Exactly how I did it!