Re: triumph baack

[Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>]

Phil Ethier wrote:
> 
> Most cars today are Unibody and cutting off the top ruins the integrity of
> car.  It is very much more difficult to make a sturdy
> >convertible than a hard top and is not uncommon for the convertible to
> weigh much more than its hardtop counterpart.
> 
> True.  But cheap, rigid unibody roadsters are not impossible.  Spridgets are
> unibody.


Indeed they are, but they were designed as a convertible.  If they were 
designed to be a hard top, they undoubtedly would have been
lighter and the bracing components would have been designed differently.

Joe