Non-convertible convertibles.

[poing]

Cotty said:

poing said:

In both cases driven by men in suits, not sure what that says about them.

Having said that I'm suffering from 3rd degree sunburn on the bits I missed with the factor 15. It was worth it though.

Have you not answered your own question?

Not really, they only have their face showing so it's not hard to put sun cream on that! It's invisible and you can get odourless sun cream too. Unless they are worried it'll mess up their make up..

[renmure]

I have 4 convertibles (hey, it is tropical up here in North East Scotland!!)

Caterham: "weather gear" has never been on and doesn't even travel with the car. Don't think I could get in / out with it fitted anyhow

Elise: roof lives in the boot and only goes on when parked in town.

F360 Spider: I can honestly only recall driving with the roof up on 3 occasions in the past 2 years, and each time was heading back from somewhere when the heavens opened.

Merc CLK Cabrio: probably 60/40 with roof up/down on average but the "down" time includes crisp winter days and evenings (with heater on full blast and heated seats on it is a fairly comfy place to be anyhow.)

[djt100]

Used to drive the Mrs Mk3 mr2 with the roof down all the time, until I got stuck in traffic on the M25 in a heatwave, The Aircon was not enought with the roof down to cool me and i felt like a bbq chicken that and hte fact i have a shaven headmeant the roof had to go up.

So I'm sure I'm not alone, roof down unless it's really hot then roof up

[Cotty]

poing said:

Cotty said:

poing said:

In both cases driven by men in suits, not sure what that says about them.

Having said that I'm suffering from 3rd degree sunburn on the bits I missed with the factor 15. It was worth it though.

Have you not answered your own question?

Not really, they only have their face showing so it's not hard to put sun cream on that! It's invisible and you can get odourless sun cream too. Unless they are worried it'll mess up their make up..

Then you have sun cream over your hands, not good to grip a steering wheel.

[poing]

Cotty said:

poing said:

Cotty said:

poing said:

In both cases driven by men in suits, not sure what that says about them.

Having said that I'm suffering from 3rd degree sunburn on the bits I missed with the factor 15. It was worth it though.

Have you not answered your own question?

Not really, they only have their face showing so it's not hard to put sun cream on that! It's invisible and you can get odourless sun cream too. Unless they are worried it'll mess up their make up..

Then you have sun cream over your hands, not good to grip a steering wheel.

Your glass is half empty isn't it?

I have managed to suncream the backs of my hands without visiting heaven in a firey sunburnt mess so far, I tend to drive use the inside part of my hands on the controls which sort of hides them from the sun naturally. Although it's a pain not using that part of my hand to apply the cream so it's lucky I'm incredibly flexible and can use my feet.

[Cotty]

poing said:

Your glass is half empty isn't it?

No its fully empty

[Mr. Potato Head]

I haven't put the roof down in my daily MX-5 for months so fk the lot of you




the canvas has split

[Twincam16]

EDLT said:

Balmoral Green said:

Non-convertible convertibles.

In the late Seventies and early Eighties, there were a whole range of American cars that were fake cabriolets, been trying to Google images but I'm struggling without a specific model to pin point.

They looked like they had a folding hood, like a full convertible, with a fabric ribbed roof, and Landau/Cabriolet bars on the 'C' posts, like you could push a button or un-clip at the screen and the whole thing would roll back. But it wouldn't, they were a solid hard top and not at all convertible.

Dumbest thing ever, but there were loads of them. I seem to remember the Cadillac Seville faux cabriolet was the most convertible looking non convertible roof.

Here we go, a solid fixed hard top, not a convertible at all...

Edited by Balmoral Green on Wednesday 27th April 18:42

I always thought that was why people had a black vinyl roof, to make it look like a convertible with the roof up?

I could be wrong though, they went out of fashion before I was born

I have a feeling they may have been mimicking the 'Everflex' roof found on Rolls-Royces and other British luxury cars of the '60s onwards. I've got no idea what it was for, but it used a high-quality hide that sandwiched a layer of fabric between it and the roof. Maybe it was supposed to provide extra sound deadening?

Incidentally, 'Faux-Cabriolet' was a popular style of the coachbuilding era:



And I've no idea why they did it then either.

[Balmoral Green]

I don't think a vinyl roof was necessarily to mimic the look of a convertible, they were just a smart trim option to a painted roof. Seventies Triumphs like the Dolomite and 2500 used to look great with a vinyl roof, as did many Fords of the day too, Cortinas, Capris and Consul/Granadas, even the Fiesta Ghia.