My cousins and uncle were able to take the doors off today. They started to find ways to get the paint off. Apparently there were several colors and layers of paint on this car. 

They tried sanding and chemical stripping. The process was long. We'll need to talk about the best way to move forward with this process. 

There was some door rot on the bottom of both doors. One much worse than the other. The good news it can be patched pretty easily, and did not go beyond the very bottom outer edge of door. Counting my blessings that this car is in pretty good shape body wise, and (knock on wood) will only require some smaller patch work.