How to remove an Essex Terraplane 33 door handle and window crank handle ?

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My rear side windows show some yellow colouring, I would like to remove the glass and order it new. I don't know how to remove the handles. Any help or explanation will be very much appreciated !

Jon B

First, I have no idea how the handles are held in the 1933 Terraplane. Are you acquainted with how the later model handles are held, by means of a pin that goes through a hole in the handle and in the shaft? I can tell you how THAT works. (If you know of this type of arrangement and it's not the type that's in your car, please forgive me!) Anyway, the standard way to remove the door latch and window crank handles in the later thirties Hudson, is to press in on the plated bezel that surrounds the crank / door latch shaft where it penetrates the door upholstery. There's a spring behind the upholstery panel at that location, so when you push on the bezel, the entire door upholstery panel moves back against the door and this reveals the part of the handle which fits over the shaft. Passing through that portion of the handle is a small steel pin. It pins the handle to the shaft. When the bezel is pushed back far enough to clear the pin, you can push on the narrow end of the pin with a very thin nail (the pin's wider at the other end) and the pin will drop out of the handle. At that stage, you can pull on the handle and it will come out of the door.

Be careful to retrieve and store the bezel, pin and the spring behind the cardboard upholstery panel. When both handles (and the door pull, if your car has one) have been removed, the cardboard upholstery panel can be pulled off. (In the 'thirties car, the cardboard panel has little steel angle brackets all around it; these stick into mating slots in the metal door frame and are held by pan head screws around the perimeter of the door. Unscrew the screws and out comes the door.

Reverse the process to re-assemble. Fasten the upholstered panel to the inside of the door and secure with screws. (Make sure that you place the springs behind the cardboard door panel, at the door and window handle locations, before fastening the panel to the door.) The bezels go on next (they'll actually be held firmly by the door / window handles when in place). Seat the handles so that they fit over the protruding steel shafts. Then, push in firmly on each bezel so that it moves back to reveal the hole in the handle; drop the pin into the hole on each handle so that it engages the handle and the shaft within. Then release, and the bezel pops out and hides the hole.

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Thanks Jon B !
Everything went perfect without any damage
I took both driver side door panels out as well as the rear unit.
All windows will go for reproduction according to the model as the plastic safety sheet is showing some yellow color.

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All 3 driver side glasses have been taken for reproduction locally as well as the front door air deflectors.
I removed the yellow/orange textile from the door panels and found the original velvet underneath. The color turned to beige but seems more close to a kind of moleskin color on the backside of the door panels.
Does someone know what could/should be right ?