Abstract: Hand tool for installing an S-shaped cam follower spring on a door hinge of a motor vehicle. The spring has an elongated shaft with a handle section on one end and an arm on the other end terminating in a tip. The axes of the shaft and arm are oriented at an acute angle.

Abstract: Hand tool for installing the S-shaped cam follower spring on a door hinge of a Corvette motor vehicle. The spring has an elongated shaft with a handle section on one end and an arm on the other end terminating in a tip. The axes of the shaft and arm are oriented at an acute angle.

Abstract: Leaf and wire form springs for use in the rear-seat storage compartments of Corvette motor cars. Either spring can be attached to the compartment frame and extend inwardly to engage the bottom of the push button housing. The spring allows the keeper finger on the frame to be engaged by the latch and hold the cover down. When the finger is released, the spring pushes the cover far enough upwardly so it can be grasped by the fingers and moved all the way open.

Abstract: For a Corvette rear-seat storage compartment, a spring connected between the compartment frame and a latch on the cover and arranged when the cover is in its closed position to develop an opening force urging the cover in a direction away from the closed position. The opening force of the spring, after the latch is disengaged from the keeper on the frame and after the force depressing the latch push button is removed, causing the cover and latch to rotate upwardly away from the closed position at a rate great enough to prevent the latch from re-engaging with the keeper and at a distance sufficient so that the cover can be grasped by the fingers and moved to a fully open position.

Abstract: For a Corvette motor car, a cam follower spring to be mounted on the fixed hinge plate on either door of the car and made of spring steel arranged in generally planar, S-shaped form and including a straight, elongated body, an upper bent section on one end of the body having a keeper slot whose locus is normal to the plane of the wire-form for use in receiving the forward edge of a keeper hole on the fixed hinge plate, a lower bent section on the other end of the body to be engaged by a cam whereby to create a plurality of detents for controlling opening and closing of the door and the lower bent section having a tip to extend into a rear keeper slot on the hinge plate and be retained by one end thereof, the tip being dimensioned to permit movement toward and away from the rear keeper slot end when the outside portion is engaged by the cam.

Abstract: A leaf spring bent at its midsection to form operating legs spaced about 120.degree. apart. The legs can be compressed together with finger pressure and the spring then inserted over a defective coil spring of Corvette door latch/handle assembly. When fully inserted the spring functions in the same way as the original spring before same became damaged.

Abstract: A method of replacing a broken S-shaped door hinge spring of a Corvette motor car by removing the broken spring, placing a new S-shaped spring in the keeper hole and keeper slots of the hinge plate on the body, and then twisting the spring with a hand tool and tapping upwardly on the spring with a hammer to place the tip of the lower part of the spring in the rear keeper slot of the hinge plate.