Has anyone successfully reversed the hinges on one of these so that they're
not 'suicide' doors? What sane reason is there for them opening this
direction?
> Alan,
>
> There must be a rash of this going on. Yesterday the door on my '60
> Overlander flew open at 65mph. It was hanging on by one of the 2 hinges,
> and
> that one is in pretty poor shape. I just returned from taking it to my
> "local" vintage friendly Airstream dealer. The tech said that he had not
> seen one in such bad shape. Normally he would just bend it back into
> shape.
> However the door frame stretched too far. He is suprised that it did not
> break, and said that the repair would be easier if it had. About a 2 foot
> section of the normally curved frame is flat. His solution is to take it
> apart, cut, weld back into shape and reassemble with a new outer skin.
> Yikes!
>
> Why Airstream persists with suicide doors I have no idea. It does not have
> to be that way.
>
> As for your seal, I have found that JC Whitney had what I needed.
>
> Scott Scheuermann
> 1960 Overlander