In a message dated 12/30/04 5:48:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,
felder@KNOLOGY.NET writes:

> My 83 Westy has this "feature."
>
> The deal on the rear handle is that someone buckled into the rear
> seatbelt can close the door with just a tug, without having to get
> unbuckled and go forward. It gets used a lot when my grandaughter or
> mother, neither of whom can close the big old door very well from the
> inside, get in and out of the car. The rear passenger can push the door
> almost closed at the front, then pull in on the handle to good
> mechanical advantage.
>
> You can't get the "running start" from the inside that you can outside
> the car.
>
>

so i guess it was up till 84 then...

chris