<VV> Fwd: Playing nice

[ScottyGrover at aol.com]

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Sent: 12/7/2009 8:49:04 A.M. Pacific Standard  Time
Subj: Re: <VV> Playing nice


BTW, did you know where the term "ragtop" came from? It  originated from
early turn-of-the-century convertibles, which had cloth  tops on them. As
they aged, the tops deteriorated into nothing but rags.  Hence the term
refers to a rather clapped-out convertible. A bit of a  putdown, by anyone's
standards. LOL

-Mark
 
 
 
Convertibles were made with natural (rather than synthetic) cloth tops for  
far later than the early 1900's.  My first car was a 1948 Lincoln Zephyr  
convertible, (bought in January 1954 from the grandfather of the original 
owner,  who didn't come back from Korea) and it had a factory cloth top, which 
was plain  canvas.  It held up fairly well in the Detroit weather for as 
long as I had  it, but was sold to a L-M dealer in Ecorse for his showroom 
advertising.   For all I know, it's still there, but the top wasn't exposed to 
the weather so  it should have help up well.  I only hope that the sheet 
metal has endured  the Detroit-area salt.
 
 
Scotty from Hollyweird
 
 
 
 
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