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When did car manufacturers start calling them “hard top convertibles?”

[TexasGator]

“When did car manufacturers start calling them “hard top convertibles?”

The top retracts on a hard top convertible.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

When did car manufacturers start calling them “hard top convertibles?”

A hardtop convertible has a hard convertible roof as opposed to a fabric or "soft" top. There were also some cars like the late-50s Ford Skyliner that had steel car roofs that would retract into the trunk automatically (if everything was working properly). Those are usually called "retractable hardtops", though.

My dad had a '57 Skyliner, the first car he ever bought new. Wish I had it now.

[FreeReign]

When did car manufacturers start calling them “hard top convertibles?”

AI:

The original "hardtop convertible" was a body style introduced in the 1915-1918 era that featured a rigid, fixed roof but no B-pillars (center door posts), mimicking the open-air look of a touring car when the windows were down.

The term "hardtop" was adopted later in the post-war period (around 1949 by General Motors) to describe cars without a B-pillar, essentially a fixed-roof car that looked like a convertible.

Today, the term "hardtop convertible" almost exclusively refers to vehicles with a rigid roof that can automatically retract or be removed for open-air driving, combining the security and insulation of a fixed-roof car with the versatility of a convertible.

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