<VV> Hardtops WAS It's time

[kenpepke at juno.com]

The wife of a General Motors VP always ordered a convertible.  By that time the 4 door convertible sedan and the two door convertible coupe body styles had been mostly dropped leaving only the 2 door convertible sedan.  It was noticed that she never put the top down.  Why order the convertible model if you do not put the top down?  She liked the lower top silhouette of the convertible and the no 'B' pillar look with the windows down.  Fisher Body responded with a 'convertible styled hard top' 2 door sedan, without a 'B' pillar.  Over time the cumbersome name was reduced to hardtop convertible then to hardtop.  That model was carried through most of Fisher Body built cars for years.  Again, it was the original basic economy / no frills car idea that left the EM Corvair without a 'hardtop' model even though once the convertible sedan was introduced for '62 it would have been very easy / inexpensive to have offered the 'hardtop' style.  Too bad :-(   I always thought it would be fun to cut down a '62 Impala steel top and weld it to an EM convertible :-)
Ken P

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ScottyGrover at aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 12/6/2009 10:14:34 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
tony.underwood at cox.net writes:

The  definition I was able to find was that "hardtop" was a shortened  
expression for "hardtop-convertible" which was a term coined in the  
1940s to define a 2 or 4 door (non-roadster) car with a fixed roof  
with no 2nd pillar extending to mid-roof, but "pillarless" like a  
convertible.   Is this correct?
 
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Correct according to my memory.
 
Scotty from Hollyweird 

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