I have been driving suicide door fords since '94 ... if the cars looked the same [profile] but did not have suicide doors I would love it... agreed the lower door area makes getting your legs and feet in a lot easier... but if you forget the deadbolt, hit the railroad tracks, better grab for the door, just in case... a '35 truck cowl, '35 to '37 truck doors and a '33-'34 car coupe, cabbie or roadster quarters would make a very cool looking '34 ish cabbie without suicide doors...... . do you like your suicide doors ? let us know...
Can make getting in and out quickly a challenge. Bear claw latches and proper suicide door pins definitely help. If door flies open and you grab it can pull you out of car. Sent from my SM-G930V using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
cabriolet... can't put hinges on the front of a '33-'34 car door, the rear will drop... physics doesn't lie...
If the angle between the hinge edge and bottom of the door is eighty degrees then when the door is opened 90 degrees the hinge side is vertical but the bottom edge is still eighty degrees from the hinge edge so it goes up.
Suicide doors with a safety latch...they are meant for that body style. I have the safety latch I'm talking about...never put on my original car. I think i paid $40 each for them if interested.
I like the idea. You could build a cool car out of worthless cast off junk that would be almost free. It is like you have been reading my mind....
As a teenager watching mtv seeing the zz top car in the video legs i swore i would have a suicide door car some day. When that day came i swore the whole time i was installing them. I think they are cool. I did have a accident with the car a few years ago. I was knocked out. I had the safety pins in place. The rescue personel couldnt open the door. Luckily i came to before the jaws came out and removed the door. A little something to think about.
If you look at older Suburbans and some vans, on the rear "barn" doors, the upper hinge is exposed, and often the lower is covered by the body. Due to body shape the upper hinge is moved out so the hinges are on the same plane. With the angle on the suicide door the hinges can not be reversed imho. Dingle Sent from my SM-G550T1 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Not a Ford but it is a three window, I have had suicide doors on my truck since 1981. I did have the p***enger side blow open at low speed and had to do some damage repair but no one was on the p***enger side, I just didn't get it closed good after I stuck something in p***enger seat. You do have to learn the getting in and out but it isn't "hard" by any stretch of the imagination unless you don't have an imagination. Truck has always had bear claw latches since the doors were done suicide but so far I haven't put pins in. I'm not sure that I am going to run the on the new cab, Daughter says it has to have them as it has had them as long as she can remember. I'll use aftermarket hinges next time rather than reversing the door posts side to side like I did last time.
When I built my Model A I installed the doors suicide. It was an easy and very simple swap. Switched the doors around driver to p***enger and p***enger to driver. I have never had a problem and getting in and out is easier for me, but I am old and slow.
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