mine fit fine and I never had any issues in 3 years I had them

I loved them for car shows. Reason I put them on is I got tired of everyone leaning on car to see the double din conversion to get an idea if they wanted it. They draw a bunch of attention at car shows. If I had to drive that car for everyday use or normal driving I would never do it. Car is now in owned by a guy who loves the car with the doors.

 

I don't have them but wish I did...and NOT for the looks of them...My C5 is a daily driver, and I mean my regular go everywhere do almost everthing daily driver. All too often I end up having to park someplace with high curbs next to the driver door...In some cases I can't even open it more than a foot or foot and a half...When that happens, I have to crawl over the center and get out the passenger side. fine for 90 pounders, but for a larger older gal like me, its a real pain, almost impossible, and then only if I'm wearing jeans. I hate being trapped in urban areas with limited parking opportunities and having spots come up that have old style high curbs. Having lift doors would really come in handy. There is a guy in the club I used to belong to that had them in his 'show car' that was only driven on the street to get to a car show....I saw how his worked, and they were tight, no wobbles, and only opened a small amount before going up and out of the way. I used to chide him about how his doors were wasted on his show-only car, that I really needed them for real world situations.

Purists hate them....but wouldn't hate them had the Vette been delivered with them! Then they would essential and blessed in all regards..

Stock anything sucks anyway, so feel free and don't worry about what the detractors say. They hate what us modders do to our cars and there is nothing we can do about that except ENJOY the fruits of our labors in ways that they can't even imagine.

 

I really like double d's red vette with those doors.

Looking at them for a couple minutes has me thinking how great they would be in my garage, wouldn't have to back in only, could turn it around either way for my projects.

 

 

Lambo doors are great for many things: car shows, and ... well, I can't remember the rest, but they're great for many things.
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I do. You'd be surprised how much a c5 convertible trunk holds. Some of us like to drive our cars. Call me crazy.

 

I think I should explain something. In order to raise the door up, first you need to open the door out all the way, and then up. If you're up close to a high curb or another car, having vertical doors isn't going to help the situation.

In all the years I've had the doors, I really couldn't come up with a reason why they would be practical or useful on a daily driver. I only got them installed because my Vette is exclusively a show car and having the doors makes it easier to check out the interior mods.



When I'm driving around and park somewhere, I don't even bother lifting the doors to get in or out. Contrary to what most people think, the raised door doesn't really assist your in and out mobility.

 

Do you have a Lambo or a Vette?

 

make it stop .........

 

 

Oh and no on the doors.

 

Reasons I dont have them on my car

1) is they have to cut your inner fenders to put them on and it looks stupid when the doors are up in the area in between the door and the fender. just my .02

2) I dont own a lambo

3) In our Club over 30% precent of the members have them and we get them done for 755.00 one day install with a 4 yr. warranty.

 

In the eye of the beholder, I guess. I think most of us "Puritans" look on them as a cliche.

Fixed!

For the money I'd get a nice set of wheels or do a few performance mods that would actually improve the drivability of the car.

 

ive seen a few different ones, if it were me id get the ones that open as wide as they can before going up i thought there was a set that could be used either way but i may be dreaming

 

some door openings that work (for me)







my favorite (although curb clearance is a major issue)


never seen these before (bmw drop-downs)

 

I didn't even notice there was a car in that picture. There's a real airplane, though.

 

The lift door kit Randy has does not require opening the door "ALL THE WAY OUT"....You must only open the door in the normal manner, sideways, enough to clear the door jams. The particular kit he installed WILL WORK FINE if I have restricting curbs that otherwise would not allow me to completely open the door 'all the way' without scraping the bottom edge into the sidwalk surface. If you are up against a wall, forget it, you would not be getting out anway. In the kit he installed, there were modifications needed to the upper front door jam area to make clearance for the door lifting with only a small amount of previous side movement. Nothing is missing when viewing the external panels, but when the door is open, there is some of the inner jam near the top that was modified to make clearance.

I would reason that with the number of differnet kits on the market, that there are variations in how the doors open sideways, and then lift. I seem to recall that in Randy's kit, you had the option to not lift at all, to just open sideways in the normal manner about the same distance out as stock.

Any kit so badly designed that wouid first requre a FULL sideways opening of the door before lifting would be very lame indeed

In the real Lambo cars that have them, the lifting doors do not first move sideways, they just go straight up from the closed position...of course some models of Lambo now feature conventional doors.

 

Doors...another way to lift.



the SLC by Fran Hall, Race Car Replicas company, near Detroit USA

Most of the time, these cars are built with Corvette/GM LS series engines....

 

actually i do...

 

Does anyone actually get these to help with curbs? Cmon. I've seen em on 350's and you only have to open them a bit before the swing... Still though, and not my style whatsoever