Week 55

Back to work! Set out today to remove the passenger side doors and hardware. Which I accomplished. They're in really nice shape with only some minor rot at the bottom which will be easy to patch. Taking the doors off would be an easy enough task if not for the door travel limiter, which is riveted on one end (a feature unique to the '57 model year, the 58s having a different setup from what I understand) and requires grinding to remove. It's time consuming since space is tight and I wanted to make sure I was only grinding the rivet and not it's mounting bracket. I also had to rassle with the door hardware... both the window crank as well as the opener took a lot of coaxing to remove (first time since the car was built no doubt). Again, a slow process as I didn't want to break them. After it was all said and done though I got them all off, intact. Whew.