This must have taken a lot of work!!!!!

emailed you a couple of times just would like to know if you got my envelpe

they are not as hard to build as they look.
i built some for my pickup years back.

We have an example of a deluxe door panel that someone manufactured for their Cougar in the yard.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w115/CougarCJ/thereIfixedit4-1028.jpg
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w115/CougarCJ/thereIfixedit3-1028.jpg
Someone even went to the trouble to make a matching door handle and lock.:grin: No winder though, watch for splinters.

Seriously, the owner drove it that way for 6 months.

...Scott, that is TOO funny! 'Gives all new meaning to "barn find" ;-)

I love the latching mechanism.

Isn't there a website called, "There I fixed it" or something like that? These photos need to go there.

and i thought i was redneck,

That is just one of two redneck fixes.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w115/CougarCJ/thereIfixedit2-1028.jpg
This was a 1969 XR7 convertible, S code (390-4V) with speed control.

You can tell that one is from the west cost where it is warm the latch is on the out side!