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Wish Dodge had made a little more of a lip to grip my finger's to when lifting up on the outside door handle . Good thing I keep my car in the garage at home. Hate to think how hard it would be to pull open a door with ice on it.

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Know what you mean. The first few times I went to a dealer to check out the Challengers,, my hand slipped off the door handle when I opened the doors. Getting used to it now but there would be no way to get enough leverage if the door was frozen shut.

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This is exactly the way it was on the 1970 model. Glad I live in South Texas now instead of Central Iowa. ;)

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Can't remember that long ago
But can't remember it being a problem on the new 71 Challenger R/T I had . Just a little 1/4 inch lip on the back side would have helped alot . Also think it being painted and slick makes it hard to hold on to . And wouldn't have effected the look on the outside.

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Hopefully, the doors on the new Challengers won't freeze shut quite as easily as they did on the 70s. I actually broke the door handle off one time trying to get into the car.

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Most of the articles I have read consider the door handles as a very true to the original design.

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Neon has a handle like the new Challenger... and it is difficult to open a frozen door....

One more reason to keep the Challenger warm and dry in the garage for the snow and ice season... ;)

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Had this happen this morning. Door frozen shut. I got it open but was cautious about applying too much force to the handle. The worse problem is the window being frozen so that it won't drop the normal 1/2 inch. Which then makes it difficult to close the door once it is open :(

I thought they were supposed to test these cars in the freezing weather?

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I don't think I would call the new Challenger's door handles "very true to the original design". Close, but not really the same design.
I remember a number of people back in the day that ended up breaking off the outside door handle, for one reason or another.
I never had any problems, but I grew up in Sunny Southern California...My RT/SE never saw snow, and only a little rain from time too time.....mostly sun and dry conditions....