As an ex Plod can confirm no offence re window.............
............as long as there are no jagged edges etc to the dent on which someone could cut themselves if they brushed against. If there was then you could be sheeted for parts and accessories in such condition as likely to cause danger.
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it used to be a requirement that heavy goods vehicles had to have opening door windows but im not sure even they have to anymore
cars certainly are legal with unopening windows as many kit car men will confirm,however as has been said a flying cigarette butt that flies into 30% of so induced car fires could be dangerous if it caused you to crash into a river and trap the door from opening as if the front and rear windows are bonded in you wont kick them out and the side window is jammed shut
therefore catsdad i think car is really dangerous and so should be parked up till sorted and owner should use public transport
on another note 50% of vauxhall chevettes would have failed their mot"s due to the fact they always broke their mechanisms and the windows were wedged shut with lumps of timber
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BB, remember that well, Chevettes with wooden clothes pegs wedged down the window frames.
That and headlights which had a tendency to come off and fly through your windscreen!
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what if you removed the door? would that pass an MOT?
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Ladas as well, BB. The cables used to come off the pulley wheels and tangle themselves into a real dog's breakfast !
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never had the pleasure of doing a lada one 1400ted but do remember struggling to get back drums off the things
to the other poster i once went for a 2 mile drive in my escort mk1 with no doors on as i was in the process of fitting new sills,it certainly was a weird experience but i was aware pc nod as the local bobby was known, wouldnt have been amused
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what if you removed the door? would that pass an MOT?
Jeep Wranglers have removable doors (as well as several other cars), so yes.
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My Westfield didn't have opening windows but you could take the doors off. Did I ever mention........
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Skoda Estelles had a lovely, lightweight window winder mechanism that consisted of a flexible rack directed down a plastic tube clipped to the door.
The clips would break, resulting in the rack popping out of a drain hole, stopping the door from closing.
Oh what fun!
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It might not have been a legal requirement for the window to be capable of being opened when I learned to drive in 1956, but I would have failed my driving test if I hadn't been able to put my arm out of the window to give the mandatory hand signals!
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In the early 1960s my dad had one of these....
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bond_Minicar_from_...g
Note the lack of door and unconventional windows. It was certainly legal back then
Edited by Armstrong Sid on 28/12/2009 at 15:31
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You probably had to lift the flap at the bottom of the window to give hand signals. The thing which intrigues me is how you got into the car. Had the sample shown had the door welded up, possibly to strengthen the body? The number plate suggests that the car wasn't street legal.
Edited by L'escargot on 28/12/2009 at 15:41
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I think they were made like that. You just had to be very flexible to get in or release the corner of the roof. Just like my Westfield. Has anyone else here ever had a Westfield? ;-)
The number plate appears just to have some characters covered to produce an amusing idea. My Focus reg starts V8 but I've never covered the rest up!
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I think they were made like that. You just had to be very flexible to get in or release the corner of the roof.
Precisley. That is how they came. Why bother with an unnecessary extra like a door when a gap will do. It was just like an old-school sports car with a shaped area to mark where a door might be. And the windows were just canvas flaps like on a tent.
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Tell the driver not to frequent any multi-storey carparks as paying on leaving
might present difficulties (and anger those behind him - it is the panto season!)
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