just curious, getting to be slim pickens for a good set of door panels that are'nt all wore out. just curious if anyone has come accross a company that is making custom or reproduction etc. door panels?

 

hey, we offer quite a few different options for the 3rd gen camaros and do offer samples if you're looking to match colors/materials.

Camaro Door Panels

 

cool plan on selling me a pair lol i need headliner and carpet as well thanks for the info i'll put it in my favorites

 

Hi Dan. I contacted your company to by a new headliner for my camaro. Your sales rep told me 1A-Auto don’t ship international. I told him that I have an address in NJ where I normally send parts I by in US to. But his respond was that you don’t except my Norwegian credit card either. And it was not possible to make a money transfer either. He said you don’t do business outside US.

I which 1A-Auto would offer there service to us who loves and takes care of UScars outside the US.

 

Hey, sorry for the issue. While we unfortunately do not accept international payments, we do work with a company in the US who does (along with freight forwarding if necessary). Give Lisa a call at American Car Parts Direct at 603-686-5559 and let her know Dan sent ya

 

Dan, 1A-Auto seems to be a great place to by parts. Great web-site, and I like the idea and enthusiasm I feel about the company.

I’ve been in contact with Lisa. The American Car Parts Direct must also make money, and it’s there costumer who has to pay, obviously. I wish you would let us outside US, do business directly with 1A-Auto simply to cut the costs. A little example; your headliner which cost 232USD, is going to cost me a total of 553USD at my door through ACPD. If I ship it like I normally do when I shop car parts in US, it would cost me a total of 481USD at my door. That’s a difference of 72USD.

I hope 1A-Auto would reconsider there policy of not accept international payments.

Cheers
ojo

 

if you have some fab skills you can make your own door panels fairly cheap. here's ones i made for my '84 TA and i probably have less than $90 into the pair.

 

Sorry battman that I hijacked this thread to get in contact with Dan, but my price comparison is if I bought a headliner.

Your door panel looks great, really nice work. I had to do something with mine several years ago. I replaced the OEM paper backing with some plastic board I found in a local store. It came out really good.

Cheers ojo

 

Doorpanel looks great battmann! Can you share how you built them?

 

I would like some info as well.
Thanks,
kory

 

When you take the door panel off the upper inner seal, you may break one of the tabs that hold the seven nuts which hold all this together. Get in touch with me because I have a great repair for this. In fact, once you see it, you may want to get rid of the seven plastic tabs and go to this repair since it is removable easily. I know they are not tabs, don't know what to call them but they are like nipples.
Scott

 

any info or pics of this would be cool.
Kory

 

unfortunately i didn't take any pics when i made the panels, but it was fairly easy. i'll try to write up a description for you guys. i do have these panels off the car right now so i can at least take pics of the back of them. that might help a little.
my TA is an '84 so the original panels were basically flat. i got some thin wood from Home Depot. i can't remember what the wood is called, but it's just like pegboard just without the holes. the wood i got was about the same thickness as the original door panel backing.
then i removed the top black door trim from the original panels. this was really hard to do. hopefully ABCX09T will post up his trick/fix for these trim studs. with that part removed i was able to use the original panels as a template. you'll have to cut out holes in the new panel for the door handle, armrest, door panel studs and the plastic studs on the black door top trim.
next i designed some flame patterns. i cut those out of the same thin Home Depot wood and glued them to the new door panel face with wood glue. i wanted to make the new door panel have some "puffyness" like the original panel so i bought some felt material from a local fabric shop. i used spray adhesive to mount the felt over the whole door panel face. before it was totally dry i cut and removed the felt on top of the flame and about 3/8" around the flame pieces. i cut around the flames like this so the adhesive for the vinyl had some nice exposed wood to adhere to.
for the vinyl on the panel you will want to use marine grade vinyl. this kind of vinyl is a little stretchy in both directions and able to be formed a little with heat. i had a local custom car audio shop mount vinyl over the panels for me because i knew they would have some high quality adhesive that would last a long time.
now you're ready to put the top black door trim on the panel and install the assembly back in the car.
i did this a few years ago, but i think i paid maybe $20-$30 for wood at Home Depot. i already had the wood glue. the vinyl was maybe $30 and i paid the audio shop $40 to put the vinyl on. that makes total investment somewhere around $100 for a new custom pair of door panels.

 

Does anyone sell just the cardboard backing? A1-Auto? My cloth is all in very good shape, but the cardboard top holes are torn and the cardboard has slight mildew and has been wet. I messed with the cloth a bit and it seems to all come off easily. However, a local shop told me the cloth won't look good if it is reapplied. I was thinking of using a spray adhesive. (Now, they were trying to sell me new door panels complete with cloth. Maybe that's why they were discouraging me from doing most of it myself) I don't want aftermarket ones since I am big on an original GM look. How would it look if I reapplied the cloth/leather on new cardboard? And where can I find new cardboard with the original holes already cut?

 

unfortunately we don't offer the cardboard by itself for door panels, just the completely assembled panel. sorry. you could alway use your old cardboard as template to make something new. in that case, if you're making your own, i'd get away from using cardboard and use something more sturdy and water resistant like abs or a similar plastic.

 

Hey Battmann,
Can you let me know what you used instead of the plastic pieces to hold on door panel to door?
Also any pictures?