idea i was playing around w/doors

[bignbad]

Has anyone cut there doors like the ones on the blazers and made them work on the pick up trucks?I like the look of it.Yeah you got to modify the cab a bit.I am just curiouse maybe someone actully did this..

[RPBurris]

Maybe a picture?? I dont know what you talkin about man.

[ChevLoRay]

When you look at the stock 67-72 doors, the upper part of the door is really quite thin-looking. That was the intention of the designers, Harry Bentley Bradley particularly. Doors of the 60-66 and 73-up are all more substantial. So, your question is about making the doors look like the doors on a 2-dr hardtop (pillarless) vehicle. I reckon it can be done, but you gotta plan on where your glass is going to be stored and how to make it all function. If you don't do your homework, you'll end up slamming your door with the window up and it just won't shut w/o breaking the glass. By the same token, you wouldn't be able to open the door because the upper part of the door would be holding the glass. Vehicles that I've owned in the past had a flap (so to speak) that was hinged. Opening the door with the glass up would make the flap raise up out of the way. Closing the door would make it flop back down into the closed position. Look at a mid-50's 2-dr hardtop to see what I mean, if you have questions.

[truckster]

You could do it, but you would have to figure out how to build out the roof frame around the door to have the same dimensions as a Blazer, and you'd probably need Blazer weatherstrips for the windows.

[SS Tim]

You would have to work out a filler not too unlike what you cut off and use a modified Blazer weatherstrip to convert your doors to a semi-frameless style retaining the vent assembly. The only benefit would be with the doors open and the windows rolled down. There will be no real visual change except up close. Up they are going to seal poorly and likely leak. They will leak at any sort of car wash and the wind noise can be surprising loud. Theft protection is even worse than stock as well. On the Blazer they made sense to accommodate the removable and soft tops. The roadster/topless version just capped the top of the door shell all together. Plymouth/Dodge Traildusters and Ramchargers only ran the semi-frameless one year then went with a full frame window to correct the many inherent problems of this design. Chevrolet gave up in '75.