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Landaulet -is a four door sedan with the back seat
convertible. The top over the back sear is fabric and it
folds back.
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Limousine (Limo) -is a chauffeur driven car with a long wheel base in which
the passengers sit in the rear and are separated from the
driver by a glass panel that lowers into the bulkhead behind
the front seats. In the classic era and later, the rear
compartment had luxurious features with controls for
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Phaeton-an open top car with four seats. This term was
often used instead of Baquet. In the 1930s, this term was
used the same as convertible in the U.S. See touring car.
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Roadster (Rdstr)-is a two-door open type body style often confused
with the convertible coupe. It typically has one seat for
two or three people, a luggage compartment in the
rear deck, weatherproof fabric top that may be folded
(but not into a storage well), had side curtains rather than roll-up windows and the
windshield usually folded down.

Sport Roadster-in addition to being a roadster, it has
a provision for a
rumble seat in the rear deck, along with a golf locker
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Sedan-is a closed body type with four doors (but sometimes two
and possibly three or five with a hatchback), four or six
windows and seating for four or more passengers.
Four-Door Sedan-
is a closed car with four doors. In England these cars are
called a saloon.
Two-Door Sedan
(or
coach) - is a car with two doors but seats five. |
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Spider - the European
term used to describe a Roadster. A spider is a small,
powerful car that is not derived from a sedan. |
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Station
Wagon - a utility car built of wood, typically
with four doors.
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Suburban
- a seven passenger limousine |
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Targa - an open-topped
car that comes with a hard top. The hard top is often in two
pieces that fit together. |
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Torpedo - (Fr) an very smooth touring car without
horizontal moldings |
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Touring
- is a
coach building term for a vintage open car with two or four
doors and seating at least four passengers. Weather proofing
varied from virtually none to a fold up top complete with
side curtains. Generally it did not have roll up windows.
This was the standard body style before World War I. This is
also called a phaeton. |
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Town Car
- is a car that is designed to be driven by a chauffeur and
only by a chauffeur. The car has a front seat like a
limousine, but the front seat generally has a fabric top
that can be removed. These cars are also called sedanca de
villes, broughams, and chauffeur killers.
Town
Cabriolet - a town
car in which the covered rear section converts to an open
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Tudor
Sedan - Ford's term for a two door |
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Vis a Vis - used to
describe very early cars, pre 1900, where two rows of
passengers sat facing each other face to face. |
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Woody - a motor vehicle incorporating natural wood for
structure and all exposed parts of the body. The term has
been loosely applied to any car which used wood on the
exterior. |
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