Yeah, the next thing you know they will be calling '62 chitboxes "deuce coupes" and '70 chitvelles "Hotrods". Stop making shit up. .
For you who say we are making things up, remember truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. Others saying this and many threads are stupid. You still read them and post so who's calling whom stupid? Every thread I have read has had some bits of entertainment and education. I also knew some would question the calling ahead while heading west in our Studebaker covered wagons. Yes, we sent smoke signals and sometimes sent a scout on horseback through wild Indian territory. However most times it was not really as wild as shown in movies and western novels. There are places taken over today by much wilder tribes. And at this early time in taming the wild frontier there was no Utard as yet. Those Mormonites still hung out in Nauvoo, Illinois making grape wine and future antiques in their new temple over looking the great Muddy River. Blacksmiths there also called those metal rims holding wood spokes together tyres. A man named Smith was the first to forge black iron into hinges, nails, and horseshoes. Therefore BlackSmith. Studebaker made the conostoga wagon bent like a weiner so the junk didn't fall out on steep hills. Covered wagons didn't have doors but it was often suicide riding across the prarrie in one. I ain't makin this stuff up.
Hey Where else can you get this much education & entertainment at the same time ! Certainly Not on TV.
This 1941 Hudson has what the owner calls "kissing doors." To each his own. Link to see pics below. Having some trouble posting a pic of the Hudson. May have to read up on it and come back.
] Actually I have heard them called kissing doors before. I didn't recall until you mentioned it. I think it is a very old timers term.
Kissing doors ? Truthfully in the midwest we just called them all DOORS ! Sometimes back DOORS or front DOORS. But simply DOORS. As for going west young man and ending up in Florida, I was from Illinois and got lost on our return trip.That little story was just to show another member why tyres were called tires. Now excuse me while I have my pancakes and rabbit stew for lunch.
Only time I ever heard of gang doors was when I read it in this thread,in all my years rear mounted doors have been called suicide doors. Just because one old curmudgeon with a Packard claims he is a authority on the subject of proper terminology and correct wording of something don't change history. I suggest except the majority ideology and move on. HRP
I was trying to outrun the coppers when I had to escape out my gangster doors. I immediatley tripped over my fender pants and went ass over teakettle. When I woke up I had a pancake on my head.
I actually believe it was only hot rodders who called them suicide doors. Can you picture some old dude wearing a three pieced suit climbing out of his Packard and telling the chaufueer to shut the suicide door? And not exactlly a good selling point at the dealerships either. Also the gang door term was probably created by Al Capone and guys like him with those large four door cars used for crimes by gangs. Be good for tossing bodies into the river. The term barn door probably came from those rear farm type double doors like on panel trucks and suburbans. Fifty years from now people will be trying to figure out what a rear hatch is. I'm already confused by the station wagon term Clam shell.
This often happens while breathing swamp gasses and sippin home made cough medicine. You don't want to go alligator huntin with your pants on the ground.
Oh no!,,not another term to deal with,,,I have always heard lift gate and tail gate!,,oh woe is me,,I 'm getting a headache! HRP
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