1952-59 Ford How not to fix your 50's ford door latches.

That's poor engineering..........there's no safety to keep from accidently opening the door.

 

this cannot be real.

 

yes martha they are out there.this is not a case of form following function

 

Looks like my welding.

 

sure isn't fixed...

 

Would have been safer to just tie a rope around the door jamb.

 

is it just me.....i don't see the problem







haha

 

You guys never saw a Bear Claw latch prototype before?

 

Wow thats terrible

 

I'm glad I got the production model.

 

I have no pictures of the car but I bought a vehicle from a farmer several years back and both door latched were broken. So the old fellow used some red neck ingenuity and screwed slider gate latches to the inside of each door like the one I attached for reference .

 

I think pan head screws would have worked better along with metal screws..I realize you posted an example just could not resist

 

Well he might have screwed the wood screws into a 2X4 on the back side for reinforcement.

 

Well at the time I thought the Gate latches were bad enough. But once I got into the brakes I almost **** as one front line and the main feed to the rear were copper and the rear won actually had a splice joint that was soldered together. It is amazing to see what some people actually did to get by. Lol

 

there are fixes than there are fixes holy ****

 

mind----blown.