Well our names are different but at least we agree on the mechanical
motion of them.
Andrei
Jon Heese wrote:
>Your description of the hinge points is correct, but your definition of
>butterfly doors is my definition of scissor doors (also commonly called
>Lambo doors, for obvious reasons).
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>Scissor doors - primary opening motion is up and forward (not outward),
>usually rotating around a single pivot-point at the base of the
>A-pillar, see most newer Lamborghinis:
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>http://www.pistonheads.com/news/images/4713-LP500_proto_1.jpg
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>Gullwing Doors - primary opening motion is laterally outwards and up
>(not forward), usually hinged along a longitudinal line towards the
>center of the roof, see Delorean, Mercedes 300SL:
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>http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~rschild/graphic/gullwing4.jpg
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>Butterfly Doors - primary opening motion is laterally outwards, up and
>forward, moves as though hinged all along the A-pillar, see McLaren F1:
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>http://www.plus4.freeserve.co.uk/macf1/mac044.jpg
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>So, it seems to me that butterfly doors is the correct term for the new
>SLR (coupe) concept:
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>http://www.germancarfans.com/news.cfm/NewsID/2030711.001/mclaren/1.html
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> - Jon Heese
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>On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:14, Andrei Cular wrote:
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>>Based on the pictures I have seen of the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren
>>Coupe's doors have two hinge points which make it a gullwing rather than
>>butterfly. The fwd hinge is located at the base of the A piller and the
>>aft hinge is at the top. The cabrio version has the butterfly doors,
>>which is a single hinge point that the door rotates around. It would be
>>kind of hard to hang that whole door on the windshield with no roof...
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>>
>>Andrei
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>>delorean66 wrote:
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>>>btw, those are not gullwing doors. they are called "butterfly doors"
>>>and if you look closely, they are not hinged the same way as the
>>>delorean. ;-)
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>>>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "frvianna" <frvianna@xxxx> wrote:
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>>>>I knew I had something against Mercedes. I just saw on MSN news a
>>>>picture of the Future Model SLR, by Mercedes, gullwing doors! I
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>>>>we can all imagine where they inspired the idea from. Only that
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>>>>car is worth 300K, crazy....
>>>>I couln't find a good picture of it so I could send you guys the
>>>>link, but I went to mercedes.com and they have nice pictures
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>>>there,
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>>>>in case you are curious!
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>>>>Flavia
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