You have a point!  When building my '74 for racing I had the entire body
smoothed out and primered ready for final paint, including the doors.
I went to pick up one of the doors (gutted of window stuff) and said
"WTF?"  All that extra weight is NOT a good thing for racing.  The door
bars are almost impossible to completely remove without damaging the
door.  I had to replace my beautiful, pristine doors with a couple of
badly bent ones from an AH junkyard car.  One still "tin cans" to this
day.
Moral of this story-- you can reverse the weight damage.  Also, proves
that AHs are actually good for something in providing donor parts for
MGs.  KIDDING!! Just kidding!!! ;-))))))))))
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:37:05 -0500 "MICHAEL CARPENTER"
<MAIL4CARPENTERS@peoplepc.com> writes:
> I am pretty sure that they quit building Sprites and Midgets once 
> they 
> replaced the side curtains with 50 extra pounds in each door ;^)).
> 
> Mike C
 
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