Disappearing car door. Hope my link works, if not search disappearing car door on google and it pops right up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAtkoje4-eM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAtkoje4-eM
pretty cool stuff and done to Mark VIII
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Lownslowlsc
Dedicated LVC Member
This has been around for ages.
thaywood
Dedicated LVC Member
Yeah. This has been posted before. Many times. But it's still cool to look at. It's a pretty neat idea. But apparently it never caught on.
Silver06S281
Active LVC Member
def kool but id could see alot of issues with the door being like that
chris2523
93 Mark VIII
i did some research, i think this prototype was built in like 93.
Markviiiedrea
Speed Bump
I know it kept showing up on e-bay.....wonder if they ever got there 50 grand for it.
thaywood
Dedicated LVC Member
Wonder if they ever made more than just the two that were in the video?
BMW sorta did it first:
The good ol' Z-1.
BMW sorta did it first:
The good ol' Z-1.
Anybody else annoyed by the snobby pronunciation of "mahk viii" in this ad and most of the mark viii ads of the 90s trying to make it so elegant sounding. Love how they show those classy business women getting into both of those cars..imagine this same commentary with two of our cars from LVC (say Franks red dragon and kirks silver 98) in place of the ones from this ad..lol
On a side note imagine how f*cked up the paint would get on those doors if you winter drove it having slush and ice build up where the door slides away..I could see some major flaws with that design.
On a side note imagine how f*cked up the paint would get on those doors if you winter drove it having slush and ice build up where the door slides away..I could see some major flaws with that design.
[video=youtube;9bq3m5QN4JY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bq3m5QN4JY[/video]It was probably a concept, Buick did something like that in 2000 with the Buick Regal Cielo. pretty cool, but this idea never caught on either.
Sapperfire
Dedicated LVC Member
I'm pretty sure the door was all plain on the inside.. not the stock door panel..
Disappearing door concept came along two decades before it was ever used on a Lincoln.
The Jatech engineers were heavily influenced by the mechanical concept pioneered by GM in the late '60s.
Although the disappearing door were not used as side entry points, it was successfully integrated as standard equipment in four models of the '71-'72 Chevy station wagon tailgates: The Biscayne wagon, The Caprice wagon, The Impala wagon and The Bel-Aire wagon.
This is one of the earliest videos showing a disappearing rear door as standard equipment in a full production early '70s Chevy vehicle.
Jatech LLC is a California Limited Liability Company formed to promote the Founders proprietary inventions, the Retractable Vehicle Door, also know as the Disappearing Car Door and Rotary Drop Door and other technologies.
This ground breaking, game changing technology has been developed over the last decade incorporating design and engineering input from many major automobile manufacturers Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) and their Tier One suppliers.
The recent response to the Company website (12 Million worldwide visitors) has emphasized the opportunity for sales of the Retractable Door Technology on a worldwide basis with broad vehicle applications.
The Rotary Drop Door concept slide show...
http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/slideshow/show/phpslideshow.php?directory=pics
The Jatech engineers were heavily influenced by the mechanical concept pioneered by GM in the late '60s.
Although the disappearing door were not used as side entry points, it was successfully integrated as standard equipment in four models of the '71-'72 Chevy station wagon tailgates: The Biscayne wagon, The Caprice wagon, The Impala wagon and The Bel-Aire wagon.
This is one of the earliest videos showing a disappearing rear door as standard equipment in a full production early '70s Chevy vehicle.
Jatech LLC is a California Limited Liability Company formed to promote the Founders proprietary inventions, the Retractable Vehicle Door, also know as the Disappearing Car Door and Rotary Drop Door and other technologies.
This ground breaking, game changing technology has been developed over the last decade incorporating design and engineering input from many major automobile manufacturers Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) and their Tier One suppliers.
The recent response to the Company website (12 Million worldwide visitors) has emphasized the opportunity for sales of the Retractable Door Technology on a worldwide basis with broad vehicle applications.
The Rotary Drop Door concept slide show...
http://www.disappearing-car-door.com/slideshow/show/phpslideshow.php?directory=pics
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Sierra3
New LVC Member
haha I miss seeing all those old gunboat station wagons on the highways. Now its all mini vans. My family had the sparkly blue chevy caprice with fake wooden sides on it. An also an older chevy impala station wagon with 350 in it.