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[Kenneth E Pepke]

PS. for Alan ...

On your side of the pond I suppose the terms would be 'fixed
head'  and 'drop head'.  :-)
Ken P


On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 07:00:07 -0400 Kenneth E Pepke <kenpepke at juno.com>
writes:
> 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" 

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