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Altman Easy Latch Article

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We designed our Altman Easy Latches to fix a problem that we felt had not been addressed properly yet. Door latches. Until Terry Altman designed his first latch kit for the 53-56 Ford F-100, your only option for replacing worn out latches was to buy a foreign knock off of the same flawed design, or chop up and weld up your doors to fit in bear claw latches. We changed the way people are replacing the latches in their beloved trucks. You can check them out in the article below and then grab a set for yourself on our website.

While it's true that our cherished classic trucks were built when things were meant to last there's a limit to the service life of any mechanical part. As an example, can you guess how many times the doors of your truck have been opened and closed? If you have to slam the doors to get them to stay shut, or yank on them to get in, you know what we mean about service life—the latches are history.

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