no exit

[theonlyjohnson]

lucky

[msc0nduct]

I have an inside door handle on my back door..

[Otto Baron]

It may be your Coach was once owned by the Tall Man, who didn't want to loose any of those slaves that he was shipping to the cold dimension.

[Morella]

Inside door handles are definitely a priority. Death inside a car can occur in minutes in the hot sun. I would assume that most people would have the sense to kick a window out before they died, but windows are expensive and hard to find. I would pull a door panel and look for the handle mechanism on at least one door. If there really isn't anything there, fabricate something, whether it's as complex as getting parts from a junkyard and making it look OEM, or something as simple as running a piece of cable through a hole and putting a washer onto the end to pull on it.

[theonlyjohnson]

heh. Well I like the partition, but I would like to get some handles in the back. when I get some time I plan on taking the panels off the back doors and see if it is feasible.

[v8nightmare]

A three-way?

Yeah its actually a really good idea, that way the other chick can focus on making sure the door doesn't close.

No what he means is a three way hearse where you can load/ unload a casket from either of the rear side doors, so there's no partition... and usually inside door handles

[theonlyjohnson]

A three-way?

[Scary Guy]

Or just get a three-way and you won't have that problem...

[Abnorml]

I have a friend that just recently got an 84 Superior hearse. I stopped by and looked at it for only about 5 minutes. The one thing I noticed was it had an inside door handle on the back door and the passenger rear door, but not the driver side rear door. I told him that was interesting. He said he hadn't even noticed the handle.
Another friend told me about when she crawled under the floor of her 87 S&S hearse. She said her hair got caught on a screw and couldn't reach her cell phone. She finally got got out, somehow.
I know some hearses have a button on the rear door that say push to release door or something like that.

[grimlimos]

Could it be as simple as the thought that they just didn't think the guy "riding" in the back would need them? With the exception of the models that have seats for the loved ones to ride along I'd say the other "passenger" wouldn't more than likely be trying to make an exit. But you never know.....

[grimlimos]

That happened to me and a friend of mine. At the time the glass partition was out so I could crawl up front easily. Now not so sure. I reinstalled the partition this past weekend.

[Mohawk Freak]

do you suppose the government demanded that the latches be removed for the sake of containment?

I'd bet the manufacturer probably did it to save money and it got under the radar somehow. It's possible there was some change to FMVSS laws that applied to it so they didn't have to worry about a recall being demanded.

[Scary Guy]

That is seriously creepy. The inside of the car must be cleaned/maintained. Suppose some guy gets in there and he doesn't realize this and he's too porky to go through the window. And everyone's gone home for the hot 4th of July weekend....

Then someone is coming back to a broken fucking window. Of course if this happened to me in this day and age I'd just use my cell phone.

[theonlyjohnson]

do you suppose the government demanded that the latches be removed for the sake of containment?

[LMS]

Mine has inside door handles on all 3 doors, but then it's a 1969 and we were just learning the real dangers of the living dead at that time.