Attention 68 owners

[Mark F.]

Re: Attention 68 owners

My August 5th built 68 coupe has the springs on the door and masonite center door.

Mark

[Henry J.]

Re: Attention 68 owners

Chevrolet had a Technical Service Bulletin on "hard to open moulded plastic center compartment stowage door". It states "the moulded plastic door was replaced with a rigid masonite door on vehicles produced after 1/15/68." The bulletin is # 68-T-57 dated July 12, 1968. The bulletin instructed dealers to use masonite door part # 3941908 and retainer # 3937912 to correct customer complaint vehicles.

Larry

Thank you, Larry. All of this is very interesting.

Henry

[John C.]

Re: Attention 68 owners

Terry

Here are a few pictures of the spring.

John

[Jeff P.]

Re: Attention 68 owners

March 14,1968 # 14222 has the door springs.

[Mike K.]

Re: Attention 68 owners

It is great to see so many 68 owners here.

[Terry B.]

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I was at the McDorman auction today and his 1968 small block convertible with hardtop vin # 2 has the spring doors. It sold for 30K and it wasn't me who bought it.

[Terry B.]

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Thanks John! Did you restore these?

Terry

[John C.]

Re: Attention 68 owners

Terry

The door in the picture is not restored. I removed it to evaluate what I could do to get the doors to work as intended.

When I bought the car you could no longer reliably open and close the doors. When the doors are in the closed position the springs put quite a bit of pressure on the plastic main frame which causes it to crack and distort making the door operation iffy.

I've yet to see a reproduction of the spring hinges. I'll eventually transfer the original hinges to a reproduction frame but for now my temporary solution (last 4 years) has been to just slip a complete reproduction unit in the opening.

John