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[aarc240]

Hardtop is generally used to describe a 2 door car, same as coupe.

(I just got bored with saying coupe all the time.)

Not wanting to hijack this thread but of interest to many.

The SAE Standard J1100 definition of a coupé is a fixed-roof automobile with less than 33 ft³ (0.93 m³, 934.6 L) of rear interior volume [note that the number of doors is not mentioned or even relevant].

Calculated rear interior volume in a C110 two-door is considerably larger so technically it is not a coupé.

Using the terminology of it's era (still applicable really) a two-door sedan without pillars was a hardtop, with pillars it is just a two-door sedan.

So, a 240K 2-door is really a hardtop

[aarc240]

Alfa,

There was one of those 4-door hardtop Cedrics in Canberra when I was just starting with our Gov't. Either black or very dark red (not sure, just don't think it was actually black).

Diplomatic plates so presumably Japanese embassy and more than likely went back.

Who would have wanted one of those things back then!

[Alfadog]

Mate, if you ever see another one, I want it!!

[EricB]

B-pillarless sedans are pretty freakin elegant with the glass wound down I think... I assume there must be some kind of rubber seal between the front and rear side glass panes, no? How is it fastened? Just glued on or are the windows framed?

Curious...

-e

[sakijo]

I had a Nissan Laurel 4 door hardtop. No center post. The rubber was attached to a strip of chrome clamped to the rear door glass. It was a cool car until the body flex and noise got to you. Structurally unsound.

[Alfadog]

On the 240K 2-door hardtop it's a rubber seal attached to a piece of metal that I believe is glued on.