Roadster vs Convertible?
02-26-2013, 09:34 PM
#62
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A Landau is typically a simulated convertible with Landau bars, like in a Model A that has a soft top looking set up with Landau bars but does not fold down - Don't know what the purpose was except for looks. Hard top T Birds etc sometimes had Landau bars.
The Mid Year Corvette is a Convertible.
Drop head, bits, bonnets and boots are tedious British terms best left to those guys ....
02-27-2013, 12:34 AM
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BTW, for you noobies, we thrashed the crap out of this topic a couple of years ago!
I tried to find it but couldn't....pretty funny thread.
I tried to find it but couldn't....pretty funny thread.
02-27-2013, 08:02 AM
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The floors of the car were wood so when it did rain in this true roadster and you weren't quick with the top or bolting on the plexiglass side windows you might have to go to '84 lumber' to get some body parts
Plasticman on here also had one.
02-27-2013, 02:45 PM
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There must be hundreds of meanings for the term, "roadster", since it originally was the title of the man who drove the team in front of a carriage or wagon.
Corvette convertibles are generally called roadsters in the factory advertising text. All the arguments about windows and tops do not apply.
Corvette convertibles are generally called roadsters in the factory advertising text. All the arguments about windows and tops do not apply.
02-27-2013, 03:09 PM
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There must be hundreds of meanings for the term, "roadster", since it originally was the title of the man who drove the team in front of a carriage or wagon.
Corvette convertibles are generally called roadsters in the factory advertising text. All the arguments about windows and tops do not apply.
Corvette convertibles are generally called roadsters in the factory advertising text. All the arguments about windows and tops do not apply.
1) I don't know that folks are arguing, and,
2) I think they 'debates' apply surely as much as the roadster being a horse-drawn wagon driver. (I believe the term was 'teamster' anyway: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/teamster )
02-28-2013, 08:48 AM
#69
Perhaps that was an option used on the verts 
I remember watching a TV show on antique cars and one of the cars had a seat on the running board. It was only used for the mechanic to sit in.