Part 3 The evolution of the C-pillar

AM SURE THAT EVERY EVO READER WILL know what a C-pillar is, but where did the terms A, B, C and D-pillar come from? The names were first used in the late 1950s and originated in America. During the coach-built-body era there was no formally accepted way of naming the pillars. The windscreen was supported by the ‘screen posts’; the next pillar back was usually called the ‘door post’. This was the strongest pillar since it supported the weight of both the front and rear doors, it being the time when rear-hinged ‘suicide doors’ were the norm. There