<VV> It's time

Smitty Smith vairologist at verizon.net
Sat Dec 5 23:24:16 EST 2009


Smitty Says;  OK guys it's about time to clear the air on the hardtop sedan subject.  I know I am guilty of good natured harassment of Mark and others on his bandwagon, but I am going to stop now and make a statement of my true position.  I don't have any desire to keep messing with anybody till they get mad.
The term hardtop is an add on to whatever you want to call the car.  You can call it a Packard Hardtop if you want but that doesn't change the fact that it is a sedan.  Follow this if you can on a typical four door Corvair.  First of all if it is a standard automobile (not a wagon or a greenbrier) it is a Corvair.  It may be an Early or it may be a Late, but it is still a Corvair.  Now if it is a Monza, that doesn't say it is not a Corvair.  It simply says it is just a specific kind of Corvair.  Now let's identify it a little farther.  It is a Corvair Monza 4 door. (Could be a 2 door), and both are sedans according to Webster.  I know Mark disagrees with this but stick with me for a minute.  I have not said it is not a 4 door or a 2 door or a Monza or a Corvair.  All those names are still valid.  Now we move up to the Late models where they pulled the "B" post out of the body.  The engineers gave the new body style the name "Hardtop".  By doing so they
 didn't deny any of the other names that apply to that particular car.  They didn't say it isn't a Monza or a 4 door or a sedan.  They just added another descriptive name to it.  So now it is a Corvair Monza 4 door hardtop sedan.  Let's add the color white to the description.  White Corvair Monza 4 door hardtop sedan.  Does that deny the fact that it is a hardtop, or a 4 door or a Monza?  If your name is Richard and I call ytou Dick against your will, then eventually we could get around to some ass whipping over that.  But to continue to argue and make a big deal over a finite description of an automobile just because several names apply equally to it is asnine.  I will quit if you will    



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