76 Coupe Doors Work For a Convertible???????????

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Ladies and gents,


I am wondering if my 1976 coupe doors will work on my 72 convertible. I am converting a 76 to a convertible by using a 72 convertible rear end. I have heard the doors will work but the insides (window rails etc ) need to be form a convertible.

I don't have a clue as I have not got to that in my project as of yet. Can you use the 76 doors with the vert glass??? PLease let me know!!! Thanks!!!


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[Ol Blue]

The doors will fit and you need to change the glass, but the coupe doors don't have a place for a cone shaped piece above the latch assembly that fits into a female assembly in the convertible door frame.

I don't think it is a "must have", but it will help with anti-rattle and might eliminate some twisting when backing out of a driveway on an angle.
Ol Blue

 

[Eric]

Ol Blue is right, the door will work. You'll have to shave the receiver off of the B-pillar or you can take it out without cutting it by removing the two bolts behind the door jamb and sliding the pin reciever out of the jamb. Convertible doors are pretty hard to find in good shape. Corvette Central sells a retro kit that requires welding and cutting but I've never seen it done before.

 

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71shark,

Do you think the corvette central retro kit is worth the aggrivation? Has anyone who have done the conversion (coupe to convertible) done this? If not , Do you seem to notice noise, flexing or any other problems from your stock coupe doors?? Any information would be much appreiciated. Has anyone done this conversion that has pics or info for me? Thanks!!!

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[Eric]

I forgot to mention that the reason I know about this is because I have a coupe door on my passenger side. I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary with it. The car does flex A LOT but every shark vert I've driven does. A note on the flexxing, when I had the car up on the stands the flexxing is very evident in the seams at the front and especially the rear of the doors. The gap was no wider on the driver side than the passenger side though so the wrong door didn't make that much of a difference if any.

Now that I think about it, I think it was Paragon that had the kit.

- Eric

 

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71Shark,

Thanks, that is the exact info that I needed. I'm starting the convertible conversion process this week( at body shop) and I was worried about the doors, didn't want to fix a couple blemishes if I was going to have to go to vert doors anyway. Thanks for the info, just saved me from buying, or trying to find vert doors!!

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