<VV> hardtop thread

[Mark]

ok guys, I give.  I'll just call my car a Nomad (although my wife's name is
Mo so we call it the MoMad).  Hardtop, station wagon, old red car, whatever.

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "airvair" <airvair@richnet.net>
To: "Harry Yarnell" <hyarnell1@earthlink.net>
Cc: "Thompson, Ed" <EXT@quarles.com>; <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> hardtop thread


> 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
> >
> >
> >>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
> >>
> >>Thompson, Ed wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I believe the official GM/Chevy vernacular for late model 4-doors is
> >>>
> >>>
> >"sport sedan," at least that's how I've always referred to my/other
'65-6-7
> >4-doors.
> >
> >
> >>>Ed
> >>>'66 110-glide Monza sport sedan, Van Nuys-built
> >>>CORSA member since '77
> >>>Milwaukee
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