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Suicide door. A suicide door is an automobile door hinged at its rear rather than the front. [1] Such doors were originally used on horse-drawn carriages, [2] but are rarely found on modern vehicles, primarily because they are less safe than a front-hinged door. Being rear-hinged, if the vehicle were moving and the door opened, aerodynamic drag ...
These "hot rods" came in two body styles, the more common 5-window and the rarer suicide door 3-window. The iconic stature of the 1932-vintage Ford in hot rodding inspired The Beach Boys to write their hit 1963 song "Little Deuce Coupe", which also was the name of the album it appeared on.
Renault Coupe Corbusier – large suicide-scissor front doors. Renault Laguna Coupe Concept. Renault Zoom. Spyker Silvestris V8. Toyota Alessandro Volta. Toyota Bionic+ – large suicide-scissor front doors. Toyota Concept-愛i – front scissor doors with rear suicide scissor doors. Vector WX-3. Volkswagen W12 Nardó.
Scissor doors. Scissor doors (also called flap doors, wing doors, beetle-wing doors, turtle doors, switchblade doors, swing-up doors, upswing doors, Lamborghini doors, [1] and Lambo doors) are automobile doors that rotate vertically at a fixed hinge at the front of the door, [2] rather than outward as with a conventional door. [1]
Koenigsegg CCX with dihedral doors open. The dihedral synchro-helix actuation door system is a type of door with a hinge mechanism which allows the doors to rotate 90° by sweeping outwards and upwards at the hinge. [1] It was designed and developed by Christian von Koenigsegg on behalf of high-performance sports cars manufacturer, Koenigsegg ...
Anchorage Daily News, Alaska. November 21, 2023 at 3:07 PM. Nov. 21—A man shot and killed a woman in the parking lot of the Dimond Walmart in Anchorage on Sunday night before killing himself ...
A man and woman were shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide Wednesday inside a Walmart in a Georgia town, police said. The shooting took place at about 7:30 p.m. in the Walmart Super Center ...
1932 3-window with a classic-style [1] flame job and Moon tank, reminiscent of Chapouris ' California Kid. Hot rods are typically American cars that might be old, classic, or modern and that have been rebuilt or modified with large engines optimized for speed and acceleration. [2] One definition is: "a car that's been stripped down, souped up ...