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[Kenneth E Pepke]

Good one!  Going just a little farther back in history:

Just after WWII someone noticed that the wife a Buick 
executive [Sorry, I can remember neither his or her name right 
now :-( ] always ordered a convertible for her personal car but 
never put the top down.   When asked why she said she preferred
the low flat look of the convertible over the bulbous look of the steel
tops. 

Buick division then ordered Fisher Body to develop a convertible
styled hard topped body which became known as a hardtop
convertible ... over time the 'convertible' part of the name was
dropped but the 'hardtop' part lives on today.

Fisher Body was master of 'interchangeability' in their tooling so
there was no trick to adapting existing tooling to make the new
style.  
Ken P



On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:37:10 -0400 Gramps <wizardhal at gmail.com> writes:
> Back around 1950 the "hardtop" concept was hatched in Detroit. It was
> originally called a "hardtop convertible" because it actually used 
> the doors
> and rear windows from a convertible along with a non-removable hard 
> top that
> was styled to resemble a convertible. A few years later, a four door 
> hardtop
> was created. The main feature of this was the center pillar was 
> removed
> above the door level and only the floor stub supported the rear 
> doors. The
> original term "hardtop convertible" soon became referred to an just 
> a
> hardtop.
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/5/09, Curt Shufelt <curtshufelt at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > "In America, a coupe is a two door, and a four door is a sedan. I 
> think all
> > educated people agree on that..."
> >
> > no educated people agree that there 4 door hardtops, 2 door 
> hardtops, 2
> > door sedans & 4door sedans.
> > Hardtops have no post, looks like two windows  Sedans have posts 
> looks like
> > 4 windows
> > Curt

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