If you can go down to a Chevy dealer and buy a 2001 C5 coupe with the Z06
option, I'll buy it from you for twice what you paid. Chevy calls the Z06
version a hardtop, and calls the base model with the targa top a coupe. Argue
with them if you want, but for classing purposes we'd better stick with the
manufacturer's terminology, eh?
KeS
> not to be anal here but......A coupe is a pillar-less hardtop, with no side
> window frames, since the Vette has no quater glass none of the Vettes have
> window pillars, so if you have a 2 door Corvette that has no side window
> frames and isn't a targa top(t-tops are still considered coupes) and has a
> solid non removeable roof then it ia a coupe, what I'm saying here is there
> is no differance between the two roofs no matter what you call them, in
> 1971-1972 Oldsmobile had two distinctly diffrent roofs, the "Holiday Coupe"
> and the standard roof one was a fastback design and the other was a notch
> back, both were still coups, same with the 1965-1973 Mustangs. My 1984 RX-7
> has fully framed windows, therefore it is a 2 door hardtop yet some will
> still call it a coupe, but they are incorrect.
> Mostly this confusion on terminology is becuase of different marketing
> departments blatant ignorance of proper nomenclature ie. true roadsters don't
> have side windows(glass) they have snap in side curtains.
> After restoring a vast variaty of cars over the last 15 or so years I get a
> little anal over these details. Feel free to flame away, I'm a big boy and
> can take it.
>
>
> "Buy what you want. Fix what you can. And remember, if you had all of the
> money that you've spent on cars, you would spend it all on cars."
>
> Kurt"Wolfgang"Peterson
> CSP/ITS #22
> 1984 Mazda RX-7 GSL-SE
> 1985 Buick Regal T-Type WH-1
> 1972 Buick SportWagon GS 455
> 1968 Buick Skylark
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