Hardtop vs. Sedan

[Gregory Gryczan & Sandra Hudson Gryczan <gregandsandra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Chris In LA and List,

        I believe the first Chrysler hardtop was a Town & Country.  It was a
non-production model that may have even preceded the GM hardtops.

        Let's move this to the Salon.

Greg Gryczan
West Palm Beach, FL
U.S.A.

At 07:13 AM 6/17/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>gimpineer@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> In other words, a "Hardtop" has no "B" pillar in a 2-door and only the
lower
>> half of one on a 4-door.
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>Pretty close!. The first of these in the modern era came out in 1949: three
>midyear models from GM. They were in essence convertibles with steel tops
>welded on. Four-door models arrived a few years later, and by then the cars
>were designed as hardtops, not retrofitted convertibles. There are similar
>pillarless top designs, however, dating to 1916...
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>Hardtops and sedans, with 2 and 4 doors, all have B-pillars, as this is what
>the door lock (latch) attaches to. It's just that in the hardtops, they do
>not visibly extend above the windowline, and are thus partial B-pillars.
>
>And, to the original question, the removable rigid roof you can put on some
>convertibles is also called a hardtop.
>
>Chris in LA
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