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This is a list of cars with non-standard door designs, sorted by door type. These car models use passenger door designs other than the standard design, which is hinged at the front edge of the door, and swings away from the car horizontally and towards the front of the car.
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 would force ...
Shaved doors are popular on hot rods, street rods, muscle cars, tuned cars (mostly Japanese), trucks, and mini trucks. It is also a traditional modification on many lead sleds, dating back to the 1940s. A solenoid is used to open the door. This solenoid can be triggered by button or remote. They can also be opened mechanically with a hidden ...
The "landau" described a carriage that featured a manually folding fabric roof that was supported by elliptical springs. [6] The top was designed with separate folding front and rear sections that raised or lowered independently or locked together in the middle to cover the carriage. [6] To differentiate the landau models, the coachbuilders ...
Essex boasted "piano hinge doors" which were exceptionally strong. An advertisement shows a man fully supported by an open door to demonstrate the strength of the hinge.
From a tragic double murder-suicide in Surprise, to a car plunging off a 300-foot cliff in Pinal County, here are this week's top stories.
The rear doors were suicide doors and had no exterior handles. [2] In 1940, Chrysler built six limited production cars with the same approach to uniqueness called the Chrysler Newport Phaeton also using an Imperial chassis.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were photographed together for the first time in 47 days. In Touch obtained photos of the duo out in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 16, after questions of their ...