Bob Ward > wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:38:55 -0500, max > wrote:
>
>>I looked at their web page a while back and they are using a few outside the
>>box tricks to improve the body's rigidity, most notably they don't have
>>doors on the side (!), only the front and back. There's some serious, deeply
>>profiled metal forming creating a sort of double bathtub kind of shape
>>which, _they_ claim, makes a very stiff body.
>
>That door on the front was really effective in the Isetta, wasn't it?

It was convenient, and super cool. I also like the Saabs whose doors
open backwards.

But then, I once owned an MG whose doors wouldn't open at all, due to
damaged latches. You just had to leave the top down and climb in over
the door. It was JUST FINE.
--scott


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