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12-25-2020, 01:20 PM | #43 | |
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Thank the K-car (also Mustang and Riviera) for bringing convertibles back in 1982 https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/02/b...-comeback.html Last edited by ZDan; 12-25-2020 at 02:04 PM. |
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12-25-2020, 02:15 PM | #44 |
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John Voight drove this car.
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my aunt paid $10,500 for her '76 rag top caddy.
imho, open top cars have a bit much cowl shake to be considered 'sporty'. yes, you can drive them hard but a stiff suspension isn't much use on something that has a weakened torsional rigidity. |
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Chrysler had the Cordoba convertible - I think it came from the factory with a convertible option. A good friend had a LaBaron convertible turbo in the 80s. They did seem to drop in popularity other than the corvette though.
I wonder if it had to do with that new fangdangled idea of safety requirements the auto makers suddenly found themselves dealing with... |
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Pretty sure Chrysler never built one. 1982 LeBaron was one of the K-cars that reintroduced convertibles for US automakers. Corvette convertible popularity was zero from 1976 through 1985! |
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12-27-2020, 11:35 AM | #48 |
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I still hate them
But I love the targa/TTops/sunroof options. |
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this?
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the problem, for me, is not what it looks like with the top down, but what it looks like with it up, which is how it will be 90% of the time.
Personally I still prefer this: then with the top in place
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Too many people simply assume they leak. That's not an easy image to overcome for the mainstream market.
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But you could still get an MGB up to 1980, a TR7 to '81, a Fiat 124 to '85 or an Alfa Spider to '93. Seems like Mercedes and BMW continuously offered convertible options through that period. Outside of sport/sporty cars, VW also had multiple convertible models. There were plenty of convertibles if you don't artificially restrict the field to just the manufacturers that didn't have them. |
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Anyway, it was stated that "nothing was cooler than T-tops", which is kinda an American car thing (with exceptions of course!), I was just giving a possible explanation as to *why* that was the case, as for many years you couldn't get a 'murican convertible, closest thing was T-tops. Last edited by ZDan; 12-27-2020 at 01:25 PM. |
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I had a 91 slick top N/A. I absolutely loved that car. Bought it with 15K miles,, drove it to 125K.
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