Re: [doc] Re: Delorean doors up up and away

["Christopher Hawes" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The last thing I heard about this is that the doors aloft thing is a grey 
area as far as the law is concerned.  It would be down to officer discretion 
as she/he could sling anything at you for it... I personally have driven on 
the motorway (smooth flat road) at speeds of around 50mph with no problems. 
Wouldn't want to test the Police on doing it though...

Speed isn't a factor, it is the smoothness of the road surface that should 
determine if you want to drive with your doors up!!!

Chris Hawes
Doc 138
vin 5255

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Tien" <johntien99@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [doc] Re: Delorean Press


>
> Hi Colm,
>
> I drove my D back home with doors open and went pass a
> police van (with policemen in it of coz!) and they
> seems to show interest rather than hint of trying to
> get me a fine for driving with doors improperly
> closed!!
>
> Perhaps I was just lucky?
>
> Regards,
> John Tien
> DOC 8
> RHD 3046
>
> --- colmnugent <colm.nugent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I suspect it's because the in the original batch of
>> cars the doors
>> were hung manually and the seals were fitted by the
>> workforce who
>> were at that stage still on a steep learning curve -
>> I mean where do
>> you get previous experience of fitting a gull-wing
>> door?  As the
>> process became mechanised, the door fitting problem
>> faded but by
>> then the initial PR damage had been done.
>>
>> As an aside, I was wondering if anyone knew whether
>> it was lawful or
>> unlawful to drive the car on the public road with
>> the doors in the
>> opened position?
>>
>> Obviously, you need to do so slowly and on a calm
>> day, but I just
>> wondered...  The BMW Z1's doors drop into the
>> bodywork and this does
>> not appear to be illegal.
>>
>> Colm
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