Door weatherstrip

Is it new weaterstrip? I just replaced all of mine and the doors don't close as easy as they used to, but with time they seem to be compressing some.

Gary

The pass side looks original.The drivers side seems newer.Neither one closes easy

I replaced all the door rubber on my 72 with stuff from Hall Pantera. Ms. Hall told me the doors would be difficult to close and would bulge a bit until the new rubber is broken in (and not to force it). They are tight to open as well. Without the rubber (and with the old rubber) the door fit was fine.

Sounds just like mine.Are they all like that?
Jack?

If the car has been in a collision or has a distorted body, the doors won't align, or close, easily. One of my friends at a CA bodyshop spent weeks with weatherstrip on a high-buck Pantera with a surgically-straight body. Weatherstrip comes in many sizes from the wholesalers and he wound up using one size for the window areas and another for the metal parts of the doors. Dunno how it worked in rain but he finally did get the doors to close easily. Me, I replaced my weatherstrip with a single size and use a fairly firm slam. It got worse when I added GT5-S door upholstery which is thicker. But I'd rather have a good seal than an easy close and a leak or a wind-whistle at speed.

I recently had an upholstery shop do my interior. He indicated he could find the correct door strips. When he was finished the upholstery work was beautiful. However the weather stripping was SO thick you had to S L A M the doors so hard the car would rock. My next stop was the paint and body shop. He removed the stripping completely and the door closed without hardly any effort
Some where in between is what I need. Not having seen even a picture of what the original stripping looked like I suppose I'll contact Gary Hall for his version.