Consol door repair

[sfort]

Hey guy's and gal's I am a new member Good to meet ya'll. Just purchased a 73 Challenger project car. Has anyone come up with a repair to reattach or replace the three plastic studs between the two halves of the consol door?

 

[moparleo]

I never found a repair that worked for long. There are new production doors that look 100 % correct on the outside with minor differences on the inside available from Tony's Parts @ tonysparts.com .

 

[challenger6pak]

I've done it several times and had good luck with it. If the stud was missing I used a piece of wood in it's place. I have glued the broken studs and the wood pieces on with the same epoxy that is used to glue sheet metal together. It will never come loose again. You can still run your screws into the wood to hold the hinge on. More ideal would be a metal block that was tapped to hold the screws. This is how I am going to do the next one. My buddy is a machinist. He will make one up for me. The easiest way is to get a new lid as Leo suggested. Most that I have repaired were color lids. The owners did not want to have black lids that were dyed a color.

 

[moparleo]

Thats true. All of the doors I've had were black.