Upper door plates

[hazelhoff]

Strange thing. I have a pair of original doors from a donor car and my own originale upper door plates.
They don't fit. Somehow the door plates are too short. Doors are 27 3/4", plates are 27 9/16.
Do you simply bend the ends of the plates or ???

Henk

[1931 flamingo]

OK, what year and modeldoors are we talking about??
Paul in CT

[hazelhoff]

Tudor 1929,

Henk

[Tom Wesenberg]

I have a 29 Tudor, and if I remember, I'll take a picture tomorrow.

[hazelhoff]

Tom, sent you an email on non returning door handles .... Please have a look

[Tom Wesenberg]

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Here are 2 pictures I just took of my door top. My top cover plate is 27 5/8" outside of one end to the other.
You'll have to excuse the puke green someone painted the car.

[Tom Wesenberg]

Did you remove the door, or buy it already off the car?
Just trying to determine for sure what it was on, and why it's too long.

[katy]

I would suspect that the doors and/or bodies were made by different manufacturers or stamping plants.

[hazelhoff]

Looking at your door Tom, I realise mine do not have the recess in the upper parts of the sides of the doors. That why the upper plates are too short. Do not know what kind of car donated the doors. But mine are straight and not recessed lik yours.

[Gary Karr]

The door tops on '28 standard doors are different than those on '29 doors. You might have '28 door tops.

[hazelhoff]

Very possible Gary. My Tudor is an early february 1929 model. So the Tops couls weel be 28

[Tom Wesenberg]

The gas tank date on my early 29 Tudor is 2-23-29, so I'd think it would be like your's.