I’ve been having some interesting discussions about the door handle escutcheons. On my car we re-skinned the doors and I unfortunately didn’t make a note as to the positioning of the escutcheon screws. I wasn’t certain that they were straight up and down or if they were on a slight angle.
A quick look at the copy of the original drawings from the Ford archives that I have shows it to be perpendicular, but many details on the drawings never actually made it into production so a double check is always a good idea.
To make matters worse its hard to tell on many photos because there is both an angle on the door and the door itself angles in on the car, creating an illusion! So I asked the guys on FordBarn for their input and they posted the following examples.
If you look at this outside door handle, from Randy over at FordBarn, it looks like the escutcheon is actually slightly tilted forward at the top and it appears the upper screw hole is forward of the bottom screw hole.
Some more photos from Randy over at (FordBarn) showing several escutcheons, which all look pretty perpendicular.
I asked David J at FordBarn to place a square on his unfinished door aligning it to the bottom of the outside belt line. Seems that the holes are perpendicular, though perhaps not perfect.
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Hi Steve, My upper screw hole on the door is also more forward than the lower one. Very slight but is forward.
Bill