Weekly I spend a little time on Craigslist looking for anything that I "need" for my truck.
One of the things I need is a better set of doors.
The main problem was my driver side door.
*note the 1/8" thick Bondo
This past week I spotted a set of doors up in LA that were in much better shape than mine. The only issue is that someone had shaved the door handles.
After talking to the seller and verifying that the original mounting points for the door handles still existed under the patchwork, I decided to buy them.
I drilled a series of holes in the patch:
...and then cut along them with a side grinder. The I "worked" the rest of the weld seam out; aka a large set of pliers and some brute force...
If I could go back and do it again, I would not have been so aggressive with the drill. I think I could have saved myself an hour or two of future body work.