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Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 5:39 pm
by Asimo
There are quite a few cars that I would like to try "if it wasn't a convertible".
Makers hardly ever get around to making a coupe (for me) from the soft top.
MG did it, and Mercedes with the SLC. Any one else, ever?
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Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 7:09 pm
by NergleFuttocks
In 20 years time we might say Z4. Probably not “for you” though admittedly. And folding hard tops shouldn’t count. So punt that out of the arena. Did any coach builder do a Stag?
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 7:47 pm
by mercrocker
Jensen had a stab at the FHC from convertible from FHC....
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As well, of course as the straight FHC from roadster...
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Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 8:36 pm
by BenHar
TR7
Ben
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 8:46 pm
by Asimo
I'd forgotten the Jensen Healey, but that is an estate, not a coupe, like the Z3 which I'd also forgotten. Coupe/ estate is an irrelevance, the roof is the thing.
Not the TR7, that started as a coupe. But I should have remembered the GT6 as that is as much derived from the roofless Spitfire as it is from the Vitesse.
There were both sorts of Elan, but I don't know which came first. Lotus didn't bother to coupeify the '90s Elan, which is the one I was imterested in. As usual.
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 8:49 pm
by NergleFuttocks
I am now wanting to find a Datsun 120Y cabriolet...
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:30 pm
by LynehamHerc
Shelby Daytona coupe, a fixed head AC Cobra.
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 9:33 pm
by NergleFuttocks
Cor yeah! And I was at Gooders Revival in 2001 when a freshly created one got stuffed on the first corner in its race. I have some wonderful before and after shots taken literally minutes apart. Pre-digital so in a box somewhere.
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:08 pm
by The Reverend Bluejeans
Standard Pennance.
What a fucking dismal chariot.
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2019 10:09 pm
by The Reverend Bluejeans
Asimo wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 5:39 pm
There are quite a few cars that I would like to try "if it wasn't a convertible".
Makers hardly ever get around to making a coupe (for me) from the soft top.
MG did it, and Mercedes with the SLC. Any one else, ever?
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I had one of those, a white/red trim 1973 L plate 350SLC, a fine machine.