How To Make Custom Interior Door Panels

By now your custom interior panels or door panels should have some resin applied to them and are beginning to look like what you had in mind for your custom car or truck interior.

How to make custom interior door panels.

This series of videos will walk you through building custom interior door panels. But using some readily available components you can achieve professional looking results. Most interior doors today are made from a material called masonite which is a kind of wood fiberboard that is steam cooked and pressure molded onto a thin wood frame to create a slab door that has an appearance of a door with rails stiles and panels. In this video i taped the entire making of a new upper trunk lid to match the lower section.

Building a show quality interior to match the rest of your build can be a daunting task. The benefit of these doors is that they are cheap stable and easy to paint. I marked the line where it needed to be on the panel itself. This is part one of hagan street rods modular door panel system.

For most classic car restorers sewing together upholstery is an unlearned skill. I started with the rolls pleated material. Mark simpson demonstrates on a 1962 oldsmobile door panel how to create custom car door panels using abs board and pre sewn top stitch panels from ez boy interiors. Again having the originals as a guide was nice.

This film will teach you how to design construct and upholster your own auto door panels. My door panels use a piece of stainless trim that i wanted to use to separate the smooth vinyl from the rolls pleats. When removing the old panels be sure to remove all staples and hang on to the clips. Do it yourselfers can build their own panels with a few power tools and glue.

Building new panels also gives you the option of using higher quality materials. They should be fully dried test fitted sanded and cleaned before proceeding to the next steps in this process.