Transport Frame to move Doors safely

[CDesperado]

I don't know if anyone would be interested in this or not, but I will post it just in case.

I removed the car doors from my car before bringing it to my Resto Shop. To ensure I didn't damage them between point A and B, I built a frame out of 2x4s, a piece of MDF (plywood would work), and some military foam sleeping pads that I cut up.

Here are some pics. If anyone needs this, I can probably put together a build process to save you time. It took about 5 hours to build the first one bc I was playing around with different approaches.
If I had to do over again, I could make it "perfect" but this was definitely good enough to get the job done. I loaded these up in my truck on their edge and the doors arrived with no issues at all.

The whole thing is around 67 inches wide.


Here is the back side of the door frame. This is a 2x4 foot piece of MDF board that I just screwed into the 2x4s.



This is a close-up shot of one end of the frame.

[77nomad]

I think that would work to store my extra set. Then I can stack them in the basement.

[CDesperado]

These would work great for that. I put them in the back of my truck set up vertically just as shown in the pics. It worked great. I have to go drop off some parts at the shop next week, so I will grab the frames and then put together a build plan.

The first one took 5 hours to make, but the second one took maybe one hour bc I had the first set as a guide. If you wanted to get really fancy, you could enclose them entirely, but I didn't need to do that and was building with scrap wood I had on hand.