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Old 01-04-2020, 06:44 PM   #5 (permalink)
bennelson
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Of course, now I needed some new doors.
Would I go dig through a junkyard and hunt some down?
No.
This is where things get interesting...

I ALREADY owned a 2012 Chevy Volt.
The same guy, Cris, had sold me one.
His mother drove a Volt and ran a red light with it, smashing the front end into a pickup truck. I bought that salvaged vehicle with the intension of pulling the battery and other usable parts from it, and then selling the rest. I simply haven't talked about that as I've been busy with other projects and hadn't even gotten started on it.

Although the front was smashed, the driver seat and both driver side doors were in PERFECT CONDITION! In fact, the car only had 17,000 miles on it when it was salvaged!

It was the same make, model, and year as the car I bought. It was even silver!



So, I headed over to the barn to pull the seat and doors from the salvage car.

I already pretty much knew what I was doing from pulling the doors off the other car. With that experience and knowing exactly what tools I needed, I made a pretty quick job of stripping the parts.

One odd thing about the salvage car was that it had a green accent color to the interior. My replacement doors and seat won't match the existing black/black-silver interior of the car.

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