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trjford8

11-24-2010 @ 11:33 AM

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Knowing how Old Henry operated I suspect that cost was the main factor. In making the standard cars he saved a fair amount of money by only using one tail light, one sun visor, one horn, less chrome, etc. The price between the standard and deluxe cars was not much, but I'll bet the money he saved was much more than the price difference. Remember Old Henry was a Scotsman. "Aye and thrifty too"

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11-24-2010 @ 8:23 AM

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Many localities had laws that forbid exiting the car on the driver's side while parallel parked, so most American cars did not have a key lock on the driver's door until after 1940.

A lot of these laws were changed when the laws requiring parking lights be left on when a car was parked on the street after dark. The war blackout regulations made changing the parking light law mandatory.

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11-24-2010 @ 7:32 AM

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Your supposed to exit the vehicle on the curb side, but that did not include parking lots for WalMart. I would guess that Ford keeping the price down on the vehicles thought one was enough. 32 thru 40s

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11-24-2010 @ 3:44 AM

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To clarify, all the doors had locks activated from the inside, but the key on the outside to unlock the car was on the front passenger door only.
I think the thought of the time was that locking the car from the curb side was safer. Plus Henry Ford didn't like to run the cost up.
The interesting parallel is that it has a locking steering column, similar to today's cars.

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11-23-2010 @ 8:13 PM

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My '34 cabriolet has a door lock on the passenger door only. From what I've read it seems that this is the stock configuration. Why did they not put locks on both doors?

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