How Many? Purpose Built Convertibles?
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Originally Posted by JSWhaler,Oct 2 2005, 08:49 PM
You can keep going on classics... MGA, MGB, Triumph spitfire, Bugeyed Sprite, so many British cars.
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Originally Posted by Intrepid175,Oct 2 2005, 06:58 PM
Probably a good example but weren't the first MR2's fast backs? I saw one at a meet near the dog track in La Marque, Tx last year. It was around a '92 model? Or was that a completely different chassis?
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Originally Posted by JSWhaler,Oct 2 2005, 06:49 PM
You can keep going on classics... MGA, MGB, Triumph spitfire, Bugeyed Sprite, so many British cars. Shelby Cobra...
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Originally Posted by preludexl,Oct 3 2005, 02:17 AM
My God, you guys have too much time in your hands. What are those? Unless you are a baby boomer I dont think some of us even know or seen one of those.
"Those" are the classics that started it all, or at least helped make the idea of a roadster fashionable. By todays standards, you'd probably find them to be slow, harsh, and utterly unreliable but they were a total blast to drive. You could also fix 99% of any problems you may have with them using not much more than a 10 mm wrench, a straight slot screw driver, and a pair of pliers.
You guys just don't know what you missed!
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Originally Posted by AOHurst,Oct 2 2005, 04:33 PM
How Many? Purpose Built Convertibles?
My answer is 17, that's how many purpose built convertables there are. Did I get the right answer?
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I think there needs to be some definition here -- by purpose built, they were designed & built ground up as a soft top.
Some of the cars listed here were/are sedan based turned to coupes, turned to soft-tops.
Some of the cars listed here were/are sedan based turned to coupes, turned to soft-tops.
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Originally Posted by preludexl,Oct 3 2005, 03:17 AM
My God, you guys have too much time in your hands. What are those? Unless you are a baby boomer I dont think some of us even know or seen one of those.
Here, take a look, some extraordinary stuff here, and almost all of them came into life as a drop top only.
