door Handle info please

Pete,

As far as anyone knows, the door handles, inside and outside, are specific to the Pantera.

There are look-alikes on other Italian cars, but each is unique.

You can probably remove the stock pin using a thin cut-off disk, as on a Dremel tool. Then perhaps a small button head bolt and nut could serve as a replacement.

Springs are offered by some vendors.

Vendors also offer other solutions.

This one from PI Motorsports, PIM.

Larry

Hall has replacement springs in SS. Used (and new) handles are available. You can also get the body in billet.

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Originally posted by Husker:
Hall has replacement springs in SS. Used (and new) handles are available. You can also get the body in billet.

Thanks to both for the information, am amazed that the handles are only made for De Tomaso, but found a new spring at Pantera Performance and its to be shipped tomorrow, only $10 too. I will dremel out the pin and get one made to the spec shown in the pic, lovely info thanks again to you, Best Pete. Will save up for the UK import taxes, they are unbelievable!

The body would be a good piece to be 3-d printed.

2X on the 3-d print thing, because OEM bodies are flimsey and billet bodies are flat, forcing the steel door skin into an unnatural shape. Except for Larry Stock's billet bodies which are contour-cut to fit the door skins.

The roll pin is supposed to be a slip-fit in the assembly- I pushed ours out with Vice-Grip pliers. When you replace the pin, be careful of the length- a couple of owners scarred up their paint around the opening while installing a new body & a too-long pin.

Check your PMs Peter...Mark

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Originally posted by Bosswrench:
because OEM bodies are flimsey and billet bodies are flat, forcing the steel door skin into an unnatural shape. Except for Larry Stock's billet bodies which are contour-cut to fit the door skins.

Not true. The only buckets that I have seen that are flat were from Hall. IPSCO in CO makes very nice billet buckets that have the correct contour and I believe that most ,if not all ,the vendors sell them.

Ron

Just to back up Ron's description of the IPSCO door handle buckets, they are very nice and indeed have the correct door curve shape.

I installed some reproduction plastic door handle housings on a friends car that where bought from one of the US vendors. They lasted about 2 months before they both shattered. Must be made from the wrong type of plastic. I agree with Kirk, I would have advised him to buy the billet ally ones if he had asked.

Johnny