Cars without B - pillars - Nissan Prairie, etc.

[Eddie Honda]

Following discussion of this:

 

 

Any more vehicles sporting a similar feature, new, old or ancient, post it here.

[Eddie Honda]

DAF / OSI City:

 

 

Was pillarless on one side, the other side having a sliding door

 

[fordperv]

Warning new content

 

The ford b max

 

[Mr A Lawrence]

Mazda rx8.

[Eddie Honda]

I drove a Prairie once, unlike the Prairie in the first picture, because I remember the front seatbelts being on the doors.

 

I was beginning to think I was imagining things

 

[vulgalour]

I always forget Prairies are pillarless so it surprises me whenever anyone reminds me.

[Jon]

Because I'm a trolling twat.

 

I knew that R20 fella was a bad egg.

[billyboy406v6]

All 70s Lancias ?

[Pillock]

Probably should have been specific in being a four door with nothing behind the front door at all, rather than just top half pillarless.

 

Like the Prairie and B-Max. And that other thing.

[Lacquer Peel]

[Sigmund Fraud]

 

The aptly named Facel-Vega Excellence ! Nissan were clearly* inspired by this when designing the Prairie.

[barrett]

All four-door Lancias from the '30s onwards... not sure what the last one was, SIII Appia perhaps? It's a cool feature but there isn't much point to it except to demonstrate the strength of your monocoque (fnar). I have done thousands of miles in an Aurelia and never once found the lack of pillars to actually be useful

[Lukas]

Many Pick-Ups, most of them from the US of A, don´t have B-pillars on their 1 1/2 cabins. With rearwards open back-doors like the Mazda RX-8. 

[andrew e]

BMW I3:

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Half of a Mk1 Bini Clubman.

[vulgalour]

The BMW i3 should be a car I like, especially now I know it has ridiculous doors to match the outlandish styling but it's not doing it for me.  I want electric cars to look like they've just arrived from an advanced civilisation on another planet and the i3 does look bizarre but not quite there.  Perhaps it's still just too conventional out on the road.

[Junkman]

 

 

Harley Earl said he was inspired by this:

 

 

[Junkman]

However, after Harley Earl had spotted the Lancia while holidaying in Italy, he first had two concept cars made.

 

The 1954 Pontiac Strato Streak:

 

 

And the 1955 Chevrolet Biscayne:

 

 

Before he went on to put the 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham into production.

 

In the photo above, the gent wearing the white baseball hat is Joe Bortz, the current owner of the Biscayne, chatting with Chuck Jordan, its designer.

[bub2006]

Mr Junkman,your knowledge of American automobiles is honestly astounding sir

[Junkman]

I know sod all about antiseptic cars, so let's call it even.

[bub2006]

Antiseptic?! I'm confused but nothing new!

[djimbob]

Can't help but think how easy it would be to change out saggy headliners with cars blessed with this arrangement, I still have a used one in my shed for an XJ40 Jag, which I now do not possess one of   (Pm me if you want it, available for cheap of course).

[Junkman]

Antiseptic?! I'm confused but nothing new!

 

Not septic.

[panhard65]

1939 Fiat 508C and Simca 8

I used to have a 508c and wish I had kept it

 I must get one again one day

[Eddie Honda]

Was there a picture in the first edition of The AA Book of the Car feature something yank and pillarless? If anyone has a copy, please check I'm not going mad...

[Junkman]

 

[Junkman]

 

[Des]

I ran an old Minor many years ago on which one of the pillars was no longer attached to the floor, does that count?

[Barry Cade]

I was going to say Vauxhall Meriva, but it appears not to be like Prairie. Hmm. Has anyone scooped up their kids/grandma/mother in law with one of these yet. Could be a bad combination with an iffy electric handbrake. I may be hatching a plan....

 

[Timewaster]

I had a Meriva for a couple of weeks as a company hire car.

 

I found no benefit in the silly door arrangement whatsoever. In fact in a car park trying to get kids out of the back you end up trapped between the two open doors.

 

Nothing remarkable about the rest of the car at all except the handbrake.