Is it possible to make some kind of ball joint instead of a hinge.

Then you could open the door like normal, or lift it up and forward....

It's an idea that i've been playing around with in my head. I need an old car to test it out on.

 

It took Grumman Aerospace to engineer the cryogenically manufactured torsion bars used as a necessary counter balance for the DeLorean's gull wing doors. Is you welder an engineer too? The 300SL & the Bricklin struggled with counterbalancing their gullwing doors. Their methods were crude and problematic. DMC did it best, but best is not flawless. I don't think your average customizer has the ability to mod a good gullwing door, especially on a car that was not designed for such a door. Closest you're gonna get is a scissor door kit, then you'll look like a ricer wannabe while diminishing the value of your Vette.

 

We're not talking about gull-wings, those would be ridiculous on a Vette and Id NEVER cut up my door, we're talking about scissor doors and those are actually really very easy and really very inexpensive to do.

I disagree that you will look like a ricer wannabe, its your damn car, youll do with it as you please. I dont give 2 good goddamns what someone else thinks.

Youre also wrong about diminishing the value of the car, its strictly a bolt on, and if its bolt on, its BOLT OFF.

If you dont like it, dont do it, but you dont have to be so incredibly negetive about it.

 

Whoa. He's not incredibly negative. Just straightforward. Most of us would agree...it's rice. But at least it's merely a bolt-on (and even better: bolt-off).

There's no need for you to start cussing like a trailer park boy, eh!

 

yea sorry eh? that came off a bit harsher than it was intended...

chalk that one up to final exam stress

 

Not everybody buys a vette just to make money off of it a few years later. For many it's a passion, and the true "value" is in the experiences we have with our cars and the work we put into them. No one should be criticized for what they like. $.02 :o

 

Amen Brotha!!

 

The title of this thread is "Gull Wing door kit" not scissor door kit. Plus I was replying to 78_383_vette's comment:
Which was about a gullwing mod, not a scissor mod. I was simply pointing out that creating a functional true gullwing is far from simple because it requires an engineer, not just a body man or welder.


I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You can paint your Vette pink with purple polka dots and glue a ceramic rooster to the hood and I could care less. I'll think it looks funny, and I'll tell you so, but it's your money and car so do as you please. Just remember, if you go making radical mods to a Corvette you're also going to have to accept that a lot of people wont like or appreciate your concept, and you'll hear comments about it. Right or wrong, care or not, it's simply going to come with the territory. If that's going to bother you, then don't make the change. If you honestly don't care, then don't get upset at other's opinions.

I simply feel scissor doors look classy and appropriate on exotics with that concept as part of the overall design. I think it looks novelty on cars it was not intended for. I see silly, not "cool". Just an opinion.


Okay, if there are no perminant alterations to the car, then you're correct.

You don't like my opinion, and you're offering your opinion of my opinion. Can't I also say "you don't have to be so incredibly negative about it"?

 

Wonder if you'd need more parking room at car cruises.

 

No, not everyone does buy a Vette with the sole intention of sitting on it then selling it later for a profit when the market value increases, but that's NOT what I'm talking about. I'm talking about holding value. I can't understand buying a $10K Vette, putting $8K into custom cosmetic mods that end up making the car worth $6K. when all is said and done. Unless you NEVER plan to sell the Vette to ANYONE, and it's purely for one's own happiness, then it's simply dumb to spend money only to make something worth less. And trust me chances are most people will eventually decide to sell their Vettes for whatever reason, and they are going to find very few share their custom vision making the car harder to sell and forcing them to take less. There is a reason stock Vettes, and lame as they can often be, demand the most money.

I'm glad many feel the true "value" is in the experiences they have with their cars and the work they put into them because if their work involves altering the car so that it makes it more appealing to only them but less appealing to most others then they will not be getting any $$ value when the time comes to sell. That's the truth, so they better not bellyache when NOBODY wants to pay them jack later.

That's funny to read on a forum that spends so much time pointing, laughing and crying at the many obnoxious custom Vettes on the eBay freak & horror show.

 

Nah, looks like it would save a lot of space.

 

I think some people make changes & mods just to prove to themselves that they are able to perform such a mod or change.

 

But try to have some fun while your at it, more beer would help.

 

[B] I see you are $ oriented, I have over 35,000 in my car and I know I'll never get it back, but I have the car I want, It's not always about the money. I love my car and get many complements about it. The last car show I went to had 65 Vetts there and mine drew the most attention. If I go with scissor doors it's because I like them, end of story![B]

 

Yes, I'm $$ oriented. Umm, who isn't?? Money makes the world go 'round does it not? If you truly don't care about throwing money at your car because your mods make you happy, you don't care that you're killing it's resale value and you don't care about how people feel about your mods then cool! More power to ya. It's your $$ and your car. I don't care. But like I said, when you go to sell the car and you don't get jack, don't act surprised. That's what I'm saying.

Uh huh. You took a poll?

 

I guess that some people actually like to enjoy a car and make it there own, and others like to keep it covered and locked up so they can play the market with it.

 

Can someone photochop a gull wing set up on let's say an 80-82 Vette? I'd just like to see what it would look like. The doors from the experimental Vette would look good

STW!

Platato

 

The big pissing match aside...i'd like to see a photochop too...

 

It would look like a Bricklin.

Hey, don't misunderstand me. I think gullwing doors are teh coolest! So much so I went and bought a car with a real set of them. It seemed smarter than spending a boatload of $$ butchering up my Vette only to end up with something that would not really work well, look odd and make my car worthless. Go buy a Bricklin. The doors are authentic, it has a V8, they are not that expensive, and there are not too many.

 

Cheap and rare... That means ugly or useless...or both.