

| Subject: | Re: 7 door panel... |
| From: | Mike White |
| Date: | Mon, 11 Sep 1995 15:35:37 MST |
> Thom: > > The term "7-door panel" Bus is actually something I picked up from Mr. VanBondo. > Albeit I probably mis-quoted the afore-mentioned sir. 7-door panel refers to the > double cargo-door panel Busses. The driver and passenger front doors count as > two, the cargo doors on the right and left side of the Bus count as four more > while the rear acces hatch counts for one more for a total of 7 doors. It is > really kinda cool to have all of the doors open. I do think that I made a mistake > in an earlier thread by calling it a walk-thru panel. I initially thought that > this referred to the fact that you could "walk through" the Bus with all of the > cargo doors open. Upon logical reflection, I think the walk-thru panels had the > two front seats instead of the bench seat. I am pretty sure this is right because > when someone talks about a walk-thru Kombi I know they are referring to the two > front seats. Surely the same logic applies to the panels.... I apologize to the > list for rookie remark... I am learning though! I've always heard the term "jump-through" used to describe a bus with double cargo-doors, and as you said, "walk-though" to describe a bus with two separate seats. - Mike White [Mail: mike.white@law.utah.edu - mwhite@eng.utah.edu] Visit my own webserver [http://fpc99.law.utah.edu/]
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