I'll admit that I don't really know if this is true, but here is my theory (please correct me if this is wrong): I'm not sure that the mounting holes were even placed in the doors until it was time to install the guides. I had to drill the holes in my door using the guide as a template. I also believe that any version of the guides will fit any door. It's just that the mounting holes would be in different spots. In other words, if a car has never had guides, any new installation should fit. I had to put guides on 1063 when my passengers began having trouble closing the door because they tended to "flex" the door a little while closing (I guess closing gullwings is unorthodox to them... go figure!). By the way, I think the guides on my car came from the "crash" portion of Bernie's "crash and burn." Jake Kamphoefner 1063 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel F." <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 11:37 PM Subject: [DML] Re: Plastic and Metal Door Guides > This is quite fascinating. To me, this makes your car and 10911 > (which I believe is Ken Montgomery's car) and all in between > more historically interesting. You learn something new everyday, > and for me, today I learned that plastic door guides were used > very briefly in the Dec. '81 cars! > > Not meaning to beat the proverbial dead horse, but as I asked > previously, does anyone know if the mounting holes for the metal > guides are still under the plastic guides, or are the doors with the > plastic guides actually different as I have been told for years?? > > Daniel > VIN 10920 > AZ-D.org > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Marv Hein wrote: > >>Daniel, >> >>Other owners have been emailing me. >> >>10757 metal >>10820 (mine) plastic. >>10911 plastic. >>10920 (yours) metal >>10987 metal >>10989 metal >> >>Looks like they ran out a few cars ahead of you until more arrived in >>January. >> >>Marv >>#10820 >> > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/