Ummm...if a car is a convertible...

[BobPalma]

...mustn't it have the capability of "converting" from a closed to open configuration, and back?

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/studebaker/unspecified/1612677.html?refer=news

I think the terminology needed here is Parade Car. BP

[8E45E]

...mustn't it have the capability of "converting" from a closed to open configuration, and back?

http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/studebaker/unspecified/1612677.html?refer=news

I think the terminology needed here is Parade Car. BP

Since it has no side glass, it would possibly be a 'roadster', provided it has a folding top hiding under that tonneau cover.

Craig

[mbstude]

A guy here in Tallahassee converted several bullet noses into displays for the long gone "Studebaker's" restaurant chain. They all had the same red paint and white interior. My friend George had two of them, one's remains is still sitting behind the shop.

[52 Ragtop]

I like the "restored" all original EXCEPT the 350 sbc!

Jim

[JEWELL]

Well Mr. Palma, you did not mention that great battery hold down.

Mark

[Xcalibur]

Semantics, nothing more. Why not, open car or... cistern? Who cares. At least he seems honest in the description. Some wouldn't be.

[woodysrods]

What a Great.....Fun Car!
That would bee pure enjoyment touring Wine Country on a warm Summer night!!!
Good Roads
Brian

[rockne10]

...mustn't it have the capability of "converting" from a closed to open configuration, and back? BP

Bob,
Didn't the early manuals and catalogs for the '53 K label it a "convertible"?

[Studedude]

I like the "restored" all original EXCEPT the 350 sbc!

Jim

I wonder if it's a twin engine job, 'cause he describes the 350 as, "additional."

[BobPalma]

Bob,
Didn't the early manuals and catalogs for the '53 K label it a "convertible"?

Quite possibly, Brad, and you make a good point:

When General Motors introduced the 1949 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, 1949 Buick Roadmaster Riviera, and 1949 Oldsmobile 98 Holiday without 'B' pillars, they often referred to them as "hardtop convertibles." The industry kind of chugged along with that definition in the early 1950s, until people came to understand that a true convertible had a folding fabric top.

And my gosh, putting a new top and seat covers on a $275 Plymouth convertible in April 1956 must've really cut into the dealer's profit :



(No wonder I ate so many hot dogs and peanut-butter sandwiches when I was 10 years old...) BP

[Tom Bredehoft]

Its a dealer selling the car, semantics aside. how about

college tuition forces sale $12,950 will trade down for late-model or classic.

. he's gonna send a different late-model to pay the college?

[8E45E]

(No wonder I ate so many hot dogs and peanut-butter sandwiches when I was 10 years old...) BP

Where was Mrs. Palma??

Earl 'Madman' Muntz wanted to give them away, but Mrs. Muntz wouldn't let him!

https://www.google.ca/search?q=earl+muntz&tbm=isch&source=iu&imgil=-gaPtkUkMqsDPM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcQKLg726x14ZdRCAqj2FOWb0AXJ62dQnn_WPJRdbAbNfJYcOUzb%253B454%253B313%253BlpnpDI2bqTFaPM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.fanpix.net%25252Fgallery%25252Fearl-muntz-pictures.htm&sa=X&ei=qkLUUtGoIozvoASawIHwBg&sqi=2&ved=0CEAQ9QEwBg&biw=1920&bih=930#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=-gaPtkUkMqsDPM%253A%3BlpnpDI2bqTFaPM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fimg5.bdbphotos.com%252Fimages%252Forig%252Fk%252F4%252Fk46dkmxkwo9qkdxk.jpg%25253Fkj8as6ye%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.fanpix.net%252Fgallery%252Fearl-muntz-pictures.htm%3B454%3B313

(Maybe so their kids wouldn't have to eat hot dogs and cool beans from the neighbors garden!)

Craig

[studegary]

Its a dealer selling the car, semantics aside. how about . he's gonna send a different late-model to pay the college?

I read the statement as; he wants cash for the tuition plus another car (of lesser value).

[unclemiltie]

A similarly done 52 with the original 6 Cyl engine has been for sale here in town for a couple years now with a couple different classic car places. I looked at it at one point and thought they did a decent job but was concerned there was no frame reinforcement when they cut the top and thought it was as said above, a parade only car.

[rockne10]

...until people came to understand that a true convertible had a folding fabric top.

I think there was also a terminology change in the early thirties. Studebaker did not have a convertible until 1931, when the door windows were glass and rolled down! Isinglass curtains did not qualify one to be a "convertible".