81 Camaro doors

[njsteve]

Correct, Firebird doors are different due to lower body line.

As for interchangability, you can use 70 to 81 doors. The only difference is that in about 75 they made the inset that the exterior door handle covers (the space your fingers would extend into when opening the door,) about a 1/2 inch shorter than the earlier doors. They made the exterior handle shorter by an equal amount as well.

Also depending upon what you are using them for, the interior door handle and arm rest had a different mounting location that started in the later 70's.

Since you are looking for doors for an '81 you will have a much easier time locating what you need. That really hard ones to locate are the 70 to 73 doors.

Also, the repro door skins that Goodmark and others sell are the ones with the narrower exterior door handle stamping and are the correct ones for your model year. I hear that they are rather good. (us early year 2nd gen guys have a lot of trouble locating the longer door handle stamped door skins. - I lucked out finding an NOS early door skin on ebay a year ago after searching for 3 years)