The original Magnette door handles just didn't seem to fit the new style of the car so the search was on for something different. To cut a long story short the person who owns the workshop we are using owns a Jag V12 powered trike. It's engine let go earlier this year so I managed to locate him a couple of Daimler Sovereign V12 complete cars. Whilst we were stripping them out my eye was caught by the door handles which were surface mounted. Five minutes later and two of them were out and ideas were forming to flush mount them.

The handle was then mounted on a piece of scrap steel...

A corresponding hole was cut in the door and the mounting plate was fitted...

The handle then fits flush. A gap was purposefully left around the edge to be filled with fibreglass paste the idea being that the handle body will be painted body colour so that only the chrome handle will show...