Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!hpfclo!mcb From: mcb@hpfclo.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Learn to live with 55???????? Message-ID: <42500005@hpfclo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 10:48:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hpfclo.42500005 Posted: Mon Jul 9 10:48:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Jul-84 06:16:37 EDT References: <754@eisx.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:eisx:-75400:hpfclo:42500005:000:941 Nf-From: hpfclo!mcb Jul 13 09:48:00 1984 Right ohn, bro! I thought I would add this perspective on the subject. One of my petro toys is a '52 (really a '53?) Chevy 1/2 ton pickup. It only has a door lock on the right hand side. Dumb thinks me. So I ask this old timer why that was done. He pointed out that about that time this truck was built, there were some heavy Ralph Nader'ish folks around that didn't think it was safe to get out of a car on the traffic side because of the danger of street traffic. Much better to lock the left door from the inside, slide across the seat and close and lock the right side door on the sidewalk. Get serious. Just think about the type of reception this would get from the dollar wielding public today. Wouldn't sell => doomed to extinction. Still a nice truck, though! Don't bother locking it. Mike Berry, hplabs!hpfcla!mcb, Fort Collins "Buschville", Colo