Patent ID: 7275670

Claim:
In a vehicle characterized by a pair of removable side doors operatively carried on a vehicle at a door mounting having pairs of vertically spaced hinge brackets for receiving the hinge pins of the removable side doors and lock pins for latching engagement with a door latching mechanism on the side door and wherein said vehicle is provided with a trailer hitch having a longitudinally rearwardly opening receiver, a door carrier for transporting the side doors on the vehicle after removal from the door mountings, said door carrier comprising: a mounting member having a front end for telescopic insertion and operative retention into said receiver; a base frame member pivotally connected to said mounting member about a transverse horizontal axis and moveable between a vertical raised position and a horizontal lowered position; a pair of side frame members pivotally connected in laterally spaced relationship to said frame member for movement at said lowered position about longitudinal horizontal axes between a horizontal position overlying said base frame member and a vertical position normal thereto; a first set of mounting members at a front portion of said side frame members replicating said door mounting of the vehicle for one of said side doors including pin receiving members for the hinge pins of said one of said pair of side doors on one of said side frame members and a door lock member on the other of said side frame members for operative engagement with the latching mechanism thereof; a second set of mounting members at a rear portion of said side frame members replicating said door mounting of the vehicle for the other of said side doors including pin receiving members for the hinge pins of said other of said pair of side doors on said other of said side frame members and a door lock member on said one of said side frame members for operative engagement with the latching mechanism, whereby said side doors may be removed from the vehicle and carried in spaced relation on said sets of mounting members replicating the door mountings on the vehicle.