Rhinoman,
Please keep us updated on this. I have been wanting to do this same thing with the doors off my parts Tracker but have not had time to look into it.
Zig

heres another pic of half doors. they are on a Sammi but just thought it would help someone? (doors are at bottom of page) http://www.msdra.com/Fordzuki.htm

Looks a lot easier on a Sammi

I too have been wanting to do this. I was planning to cut down then angle back up just above the stock door handle to simplify things. That way I wouldn't have to fabricate latches and such, but it might not be quite as cool, and could look odd with the angles. Any thoughts?

Here's some photoshop visualizations I came up with...

Stock:


Variation 1 (stock handle):


Variation 1 with lines of stock door to show removal area:


Variation 2 (custom latch/handle):


Variation 3 (Like 1, but rounded a bit):


I started to really like #1 after looking at it a while. It really would make a pretty decent difference, and being able to use the stock handle/latch/hardware would be a really nice benefit.

I've binned the outer handle. Its easy enough to reah inside and open it with an inside catch. Besides I want to be able to jump in and out without opening the doors   so I cut mine down as low as I could whilst still retaining the side impact bar. I haven't cut the first door quite right though so I will have to make good a little, the line will go across where the old external latch was. I'm going to line the interior with sheet ally cos the inside panel is a very irregular shape. My back has been giving me a bit of trouble this week so I haven't done any more work on them but I plan on getting something pretty much together in the next few weeks as we have a big show coming up on the 22nd/23rd, I just hope its not raining.