After cleaning some of the rust off of the door shell I mounted it to the car on and put some temporary cross bracing to mimic the skin so I could work on the interior modifications.
I cut out the end section where the old door latch was mounted and  fabricated a new piece out of .060 steel  to work with the 06 latch. The only thing I wasn't to happy about is there will be a small break in the door seal rubber because of the way this one engages.

After the door side was taken care of I mounted the latch so that I could do an alignment with the door jamb.

I cut out the old jamb as the latch area was too deep to work with the new catch.

I made a filler plate out of .060 steel and modified the floating backer plate that was in the 68 door jamb so as to have a way to adjust the door catch.

I then mounted the catch and adjusted it so that it would line up in and out as well as up and down.

After the catch mechanism was operating correctly I  cut out the section of the inner door panel from the 06 to help locate the inner door handle.

I welded a piece of 1/8" x 2" steel strap on the back side , drilled and tapped it to secure the handle.

I took the 06 actuator rods for both the lock button and the inner door handle and modified (mostly straightened) them to work in the 68 door.

The thing is I committed to the location of the latch before I checked the rear glass track and it just missed by a whisker. Sometimes it is better to be lucky than smart.

Well more noodling that felt like nothing got done.  I got the other rear window regulator refurbished and then installed so both rear regulators are operational. Found out that the window motors only work when hooked to the car and through the harness with the front window switch installed so simple bench testing is out. I guess it has something to do with some of the safety features of the motors and their sensitivity to loads like a child's head or something. I de skinned my doors so that I can get the shells media blasted. I started cleaning the underside of the hood skin. I rebuilt the door hinges.
I removed most of the gunk paint an rust by hand with a stripper wheel and will bead blast them later. One hinge had the pin ripped away so I had to weld it up and re drill it. Replaced the brass and the pins.

I welded some nuts into the door jamb where the hinges usually bolt in from the inside of the jamb. The SRT dash is in the way of me bolting it up that way so now all the bolts for the hinges go in from the outside.  I drilled out the corresponding threaded area of the hinges to allow for adjustment slop. The lower hinge usually doesn't have brass bushings but since I had them apart I thought I would clearance for them. I like the idea of the bushings rather than the steel on steel.

More noodling. It might not seem necessary right now but some of these little items I am working on all have to have some sort of welded tabs or other fabrication done that needs to be  figured out so that when I finally get to the body work I will not have to worry about scarring it up getting in and out of the car with tools.
I was going to custom fabricate the  inner "A" pillar covers out of metal and cover them with vinyl and I decided to first try to modify the SRT inners. If it didn't work out so what. If it did I would have much safer plastic covers that would match the interior.  Well after some carving like Gepeto did on Pinnochio  they actually worked out pretty good. Instead of trying to blind fasten them I just went for an old school look with a couple of stainless steel oval head 10-24 machine screws tapped into some plates welded into the "A" pillar back side. I mocked up a piece of the pinch weld molding that came off the SRT and it looks like I will be able to use that too.

I was going to mount the third tail light on the package tray but it didn't look right and was too prominent. I opted instead to mount it to the back ceiling in it's own little pod close to the top of the rear window bed. It is hard to see in these pictures but it looks okay in that spot.

More knick knack items taken care of. I cut two pockets in the inner side roof support to install the "OH S##T" handles in the back seat area. The over head courtesy lighting is in this assembly. I fabricated a backer plate out of .060 that would accept the plastic sub housing and then test fit the handles.

The rear view mirror from the 06 is pretty large so instead of attaching it to the windshield I decided to mount it to the back side of the upper windshield bed. Since the windshield is so much smaller on the 68 this gets it up as high as it can go.

I wanted to mount the over head map light module so I built an attachment bracket that spans from the front roof support to the first intermediate roof support. I attached the plastic sub mounting box to this and test fit the map light module. I will have to build an overhead console to blend this out to the head liner.

 I saved the mounting points for the sun visors from the roof structure of the 06 so that I might use them to locate the visors in the 68. I cut clearance holes in the upper corners of the windshield support and installed them along with the hooks that hold them to the ceiling. Now I will be able to put makeup on while I drive.