Suicide doors are car doors hinged to open at the rear instead of the front. While the vast majority of today’s vehicles use front-hinged doors, rear-hinged or ‘suicide’ doors have been around since the first animal-free people-carriers evolved from their predecessors — horse-drawn carriages. The history of suicide doors (some of it real and some fiction) has created a very colorful picture of what was once a very common automotive feature.  Suicide doors are alleged to have come by
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