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This Model "A" Special Coupe's vinyl roof had two exposed seams on the back corners, with a lateral seam on the top covered with a narrow trim strip. The technique fell out of favor in the 1930s as painted steel was considered a better roof. [2] Smoother, pontoon bodies began to be fashionable with metal.
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.
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 ...
Two-door, with distinctive bright-metal stainless-steel B-pillar and mid-roof tiara (″crown-of-chrome″) trim and transparent top. The transparent top was a +$69.49 option on the Fairlane Crown Victoria body type 64A (steel-top) car (price $2,638.48 in L.A. Calif.) that then made the Fairlane Crown Victoria Transparent Top body type 64B car ...
This landau roof design was adopted in early automobiles as a convertible top. The term, however, came to mean a simulated convertible. [ 1 ] A landau bar is an ornamental feature located on a car's c-pillar derived from the roof form, primarily used on hearses .
Canopy – roof, windshield, and sides are one unit that moves upward, forward, or sideways to provide access. Gullwing – (also called "falcon-wing") hinged to the roof at the top horizontal edge of the door, and open upward on a horizontal axis. Gullwing doors with a second hinge between door and moving roof panel are called falcon wing doors.
Three-box form Alfa Romeo Giulia (Type 105) sedan/saloon Three-box form A categorization based on overall form design using rough rectangle volumes. In the case of the three-box form, there is a "box" delineating a separate volume from the a-pillar forward, a second box comprising the passenger volume, and third box comprising the trunk area—e.g., a Sedan.