Quite right. The first year for the production MoPar hardtop was 1950 and
the roofs were certainly added to convertible bodies. Don't know about the
other marques, but in the early years Chrysler named the hardtops
'Newports' -- nothing to do with the later Newport model. I have a 1950 NY
Newport.
7 prototype Chrysler T&C hardtops were built in 1946 and Richard Langworth
states that at least one survives.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Katzenberger <katzenberger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, 21 September, 1999 05:59
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Convertables
>The first MoPar 2Dr Hardtops in the 50s, and I think, the prototype Town
>and Country 2Dr HT, where built by attaching a 'hard top' to a
>convertible body. Just the opposite it seems of what was happening by
>the end of the 50s.
>Ed
>
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