<VV> WAS FOR Sale

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

Yep - FHC and DHC!

Cheers

Alan

P.S. Kaiser rules! He was there first!

P.P.S. Or maybe the Alfa 8C on this page was first - can't tell if it is 
pillarless or not:

http://www.brewersofindianaguild.com/ostrander/France/61-SchlumpfCollection.html

P.P.P.S. If you haven't been to the Schlumpf collection (the link above), 
save your $$$ and go. It is amazing. I am going past Mulhouse (where it is) 
on a European trip to collect Lancia spares next week, and I will call in 
again if I get time.

P.P.P.P.S. Are cars that have pillarless doors but pillars in the doors 
hardtops? I have got several of those: http://www.corvair.de/mvc-003f3.jpg

P.P.P.P.P.S. Corvair content: thanks to Thomas Stingl for the above link. 
This is his website. He had Corvairs and he is a great guy!




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth E Pepke" <kenpepke at juno.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> WAS FOR Sale


> 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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