Re: Coupe or Sedan?

[JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just kidding John.  Good post.

Joe Fulton
Salinas, CA
--- John McEwen <moparrr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nope!  This is really who it says it is.  About all
> we have in common 
> is an Irish ancestry.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> >This is really John Mahoney isn't it?  Come on,
> fess up.  :)
> >
> >Joe Fulton
> >Salinas, CA
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "John McEwen"
> <moparrr@xxxxxxx>
> >To: <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 6:33 PM
> >Subject: RE: Coupe or Sedan?
> >
> >
> >A point of clarification is called for here. Alfred
> has a given a 
> >good description of the issue but I'd like to go
> back historically 
> >to the beginning of the "hardtop".
> >
> >The term derives from the original "Hard Top
> Convertible" which was 
> >the designation used when the first mass-produced
> hardtops were 
> >introduced by GM in '49.  The defining icons were
> three in number: 
> >1.  The car had no B pillar.  2.  The roof was
> styled in a manner 
> >similar to a convertible coupe.  3.  There were
> usually bright metal 
> >imitation bows mounted over the headliner which
> represented the 
> >actual bows of the convertible roof.
> 
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