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the 88 on handles look pretty cool.
back in the late 80's - 90's when that was popular I would have every bodyman I knew cutting out and saving the handle mounts out of the doors and skins they replaced on the stock trucks for me. To add those handles was really double work from shaving handles... cause you had to shave the original handle, and cut and weld in the new handle skin/mount.
those 88 and up doors )ck) were easy to "pop" (thieves could jimmy under the handle with a thin screwdriver and work the lock rod..)
they made a theft preventer back then that was bolt on.. i used to double the area behind with tacking in an extra strip of sheet metal (typically trimed
off of the same door skin that the handle hole came out of ) to strengthen and help prevent a popper from access.