The Northern Girls may knock me out, but put me out West or down South so I can cruise around all year round with the top down! There is nothing better than a convertible! Classic, Muscle Car, Sports Car, or Luxury Car - it ALL works!!!
Driving around with the wind blowing in your face, in your hair, in the open air, what a great feeling! Takes me back to my younger days, cruising down to Santa Cruz, with the boards in the back, looking cool and ready for action ( in our own minds anyway! ). Partial to Pontiacs, I love the GTO and Firebird Converts the best. Although, put a rag top on a Chevy, be it a Vette, Camaro, Chevelle, Classic Impala, or Monte Carlo, and it works good too! And of course, we can't overlook the classic 55-57 T-Birds! I suppose we need to include the older classic roadsters, many which came with NO top, they were just open!
I've seen some slick new convertibles out lately, like the Eos by Volkswagen. Have you seen one? It's what they call a hardtop convertible, where the hard top goes down into the trunk. It is super quick at it, too, taking all of about 25 seconds. The Eos also comes with a sunroof for those days when you don't need the whole top open. Pretty sweet! Reminds me of the Ford Fairlane Skyliners, which were only available from 1957 thru 1959. A classic beast of a car, and a pretty slow crank down, but then - it was the 50's!!! The top, once down, took up the whole trunk, with all the mechanics for it. But it still looked cool, and you had the best of both worlds - hard top and no top!!
Shopping around the aftermarket auto web stores, it's nice to see you can now get a good quality replacement convertible top for just about any older convert. It doesn't seem that long ago that the best you might do was a shabby, one-size-fits-all jobber that likely only came in an ugly white or cream color, or black. Depending on your car color, it probably looked bad. And, it probably leaked, and never folded up worth a hoot. The windows in 'em were always fun too. Extra points if you could actually SEE out of it, they were a nightmare when folding up the top, and cracked easily.
So, whatever your car choice is, if you can get it with a rag top, by all means go for it! Even if you live in the Midwest and have to sit in it in the garage 6 months out of the year!! Long live the Summer!
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