<VV> hardtop thread

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I beg to differ with you, Harry.

A sedan, by definition is a car with a "B" pillar that extends from 
floor to roof. It has nothing to do with how many doors it has. 
Evidence: a 2door hardtop is NOT a sedan, but a hardtop by definition. 
If it had a "B" pillar that reached the roof, THEN would it be called a 
two-door-sedan. Likewise, a 4door hardtop is NOT a sedan, but a hardtop 
by definition.

BTW as another poster said, a coupe is a 2door with a truncated roof, as 
opposed to a full "sedan" style roof.

Now when we refer to Corvairs (necessary Corvair content) the 2doors can 
rightfully be called coupes, because neither early nor late 2doors have 
full "sedan" style roofs, but truncated roofs. Further, early 4doors are 
full sedans, while late 4doors are 4door hardtops. This by strict, 
commonly accepted automotive terms, not marketing terms.

My late 4door is still a 4door hardtop to me, though it's called a 
"sport sedan" by GM marketing. But a rose by any other name....

-Mark

Harry Yarnell wrote:

>I'm sorry; a four (4) door is a sedan. Period. Gild it all you want, it's
>still a sedan.
>Just as a 2 door is a coupe.
>
>Harry Yarnell
>perryman garage and orphanage
>perryman, MD
>hyarnell1@earthlink.net
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>>While that was certainly GM Marketing's name for it, I feel that calling
>>the late 4door any kind of a "sedan" would be a misnomer. Just because
>>it has 4 doors instead of 2 doesn't mean it's automatically a sedan
>>anything. It's a pure hardtop, by strict definition, not a sedan. Just
>>my two cents worth....
>>
>>-Mark
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>>Thompson, Ed wrote:
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>>>I believe the official GM/Chevy vernacular for late model 4-doors is
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>"sport sedan," at least that's how I've always referred to my/other '65-6-7
>4-doors.
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>>>Ed
>>>'66 110-glide Monza sport sedan, Van Nuys-built
>>>CORSA member since '77
>>>Milwaukee