[Tjd]

Will try to help you the best I can the way I mounted the door frames to the doors hood and trunk was to rivet flashing on it like you would do if you were doing an aluminum skin then bonded the flashing to the door skin you have to make sure it contour to the shape of the door or hood trunk skins and that’s the way we did it on the 4000 cars then we drop the flashing made the frames a little closer to the door and then just bonding them on with 3M of which I can’t remember what we used.
fitting the doors before you put the skins on it this goes for hood and trunk I will try to find a picture that I have sent someone else clamp a piece of aluminum to the door frame and line it up like it’s the leading edge of the door and then open the door and see if it clears the body as it opens if it doesn’t you have to move the hinge pins either out closer to the outer skin or forward.
The upper steering column shift is 30-3/4”long
Hope you can understand my rambling I talk to my phone so If something doesn’t sound right it’s the phones fault.
Tom