Quick-disconnect door hinge

In an improved quick disconnect and connect hinge assembly of the type having a body half adopted to be secured to the body of a vehicle and a door half pivotally connected by a pintle pin about a vertical hinge axis to the body half, the improvement wherein:

• said body half comprises a main member adapted to be secured to said vehicle body and a U-shaped extension member pivotally connected by said pintle pin to said door half;
• said body half main member having a mounting portion adapted to abut the vehicle body and a channel shaped portion including a bight wall and a pair of side flanges extending normal thereto;
• said body half U-shaped extension member having a planar base wall and a pair of right angled side flanges, said base wall side flanges in the form of parallel legs projecting outwardly therefrom, each said leg terminating in a knuckle having a hole for the reception of said pintle pin,
• said body half main member channel-shaped portion sized to receive said body half U-shaped extension member in a juxtaposed nested manner, and aligned aperture means in said extension member base wall and main member bight wall adapted to receive a single fastener therethrough such that said main member and said extension member are positively clamped together by said single fastener thereby obviating both separable and relative rotational movement between said members.