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Sales were low, but the Eldorado Seville with its vinyl roof was produced until 1960. [3] Ford followed a few years later with a vinyl roof option on the 1962 Ford Thunderbird that also re-introduced landau bars as a styling element. The vinyl covering proved popular, and some form of vinyl trim would be seen on Thunderbird roofs for the next ...
Trim/appearance package: May include special paint colors, upgraded interior trim pieces (often made from aluminum, chrome or timber), and exterior decals. In past decades, appearance packages have also included two-tone paint, pin striping , bumpers painted the same color as the vehicle body, and vinyl roof covers.
An automobile roof or car top is the portion of an automobile that sits above the passenger compartment, protecting the vehicle occupants from sun, wind, rain, and other external elements. Because the earliest automobiles were designed in an era of horse-drawn carriages , early automobile roofs used similar materials and designs.
Chopping a car, known more fully as "chopping the top," goes back to the early days of hot rodding and is an attempt to reduce the frontal profile of a car and increase its speed potential. To chop a roof, a shop cuts down the pillars and windows, lowering the overall roofline.
A T-top (UK: T-bar) is an automobile roof with a removable panel on each side of a rigid bar running from the center of one structural bar between pillars to the center of the next structural bar. The panels of a traditional T-top are usually made of auto grade safety glass ( tempered or laminated ), or acrylic – but they can also be black or ...
Automotive moulding or car body moulding are decorative and protective mouldings on the car body. The term applies both to the detail and the material. Car mouldings include side body moulding, lower body moulding, door moldings, window mouldings, footrest moulding, [1] mudflaps, etc. They are often found in services in association with car ...
The car was designed to have a convertible look and padded nylon or cotton was applied over the roof contributing to the soft-top appearance. [ 24 ] Two-door hardtops became popular with consumers in the 1950s, while the two-door sedan body design fell out of favor among buyers.
Any piece of normally fixed metal or trim which rises up from one side, over the roof and down the other side is sometimes called a targa band, targa bar, or wrapover band. Targa tops are different from T-tops , which have a solid, non-removable bar running between the top of the windscreen and the rear roll-bar, and generally have two separate ...