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I keep thinking a vert might be fun, but in the end I think it's one of those things that I wouldn't use nearly as much as I first thought.
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Originally Posted by SpeedyAZ
Also a convertible owner here; have had three convertibles with two being Corvette's and one being a Porsche. Started with a 1986 Porsche 911 Targa about eight years ago then traded for a 2005 Corvette convertible and currently own a 2008 Corvette convertible. Phoenix, much like San Diego, is one of the best places in the US to have a practical reason for owning a convertible of any type. No matter what month, I never can leave my house without spotting someone driving a convertible of some type. Quite a few are used as daily drivers since the weather is almost always cooperative.
Next on my list though:
As long as I can snatch one up for a reasonable price, come this spring I plan on having a C7 convertible in my garage.
Same difference. A Jeep Wrangler isn't necessarily a convertible either so don't jump all over me. It's a semi-convertible if you want to be particular.
I've got to LOL at the "sports" cars that are also convertibles. Lets take something that's supposedly designed to go around corners fast, accelerate fast, stop fast.... then add weight and make it structurally weaker/more loose. A little contradictory, but I know it's about the image and not the function for people who own those vehicles.
Most modern convertible sports cars aren't much heavier than their fixed-roof counterparts. The mechanism for operating a convertible top used to add 100+ pounds to the vehicle but anymore, the actual difference may be as little as a couple pounds. I actually think my Corvette Convertible may be lighter than the Corvette Coupe, forgot where I read that though.
The structural rigidity may suffer a bit but the acceleration/stopping times are almost exactly the same.
I've got to LOL at the "sports" cars that are also convertibles. Lets take something that's supposedly designed to go around corners fast, accelerate fast, stop fast.... then add weight and make it structurally weaker/more loose. A little contradictory, but I know it's about the image and not the function for people who own those vehicles.
You are rather ignorant.
Sports cars were traditionally convertibles because they were lighter than theri coupe counterparts. Cars like MGas, TR2 and TR3s, Ferrari Testarossas and 166 MMs (in fact all early Ferrari sports cars were convertibles, as was the first Porsche sports car). Sports car racing started out with convertibles, and evolved in to the formula cars we know today, which are ALSO open cars.
I laugh at people who don't know this stuff and think convertibles are the lesser of the sports cars.
It was only after the GT classes were introduced in the '60s that coupes got faster. And even then, Ferrari and Porsche refused to call coupes Sports cars, as they were GT cars. Sports cars were convertibles.
BTW, I still have one of my two last convertibles, and MGB (traditional sports car, in fact), after having traded my Mustang GT convertible in on a Volt. I've always had at least one convertible in the collection, going back to my first MG Midget in '81:
Up thorugh my Daytona Spyder:
A few convertible minitrucks, like this datsun:
A number of Fiats:
The Mustang:
And the MGB (that was a friend's back when I took this picture
And when i can't have a convertible, I have to have at least a sunroof in my sedan or coupe.
My XLR-V had the best of both worlds. Because it had a hard top, the road noise was dampened and it didn't look like total crap with the roof up (which every other cloth top convertible does).
My current car - 2011 GS Corvette - is also a convertible. I went a few years without a convertible (because I had a motorcycle) and I am never making that mistake again. I will always have one.
Same difference. A Jeep Wrangler isn't necessarily a convertible either so don't jump all over me. It's a semi-convertible if you want to be particular.
I agree. I never think of my YJ as a convertible, and think it's strange that they are advertised as such.
But if we're going the "semi-convertible" route, we should just call Wranglers "completely-convertible" lol
Here's mine:
But then, I can also put a bikini top on it, and vinyl half doors, or metal half doors, or no doors, or a hard top, or a soft top.......
or, a Bikini top with a wind jammer and a duster tonneau cover
or just leave the soft top up and take the windows out
Ahhhh....the possibilities are endless with these little machines.
I got one. Just finished renovating it in time for the summer, no re-spray just sourcing of original parts, trim and the like and retro-fitting. '75 Triumph TR6
Last edited by Baldrick; 04-25-2013 at 08:28 AM..
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