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That helps too Glen.

Now I know where they get the A/C in air conditioning.

I am tellin' ya, this is the best place to learn stuff.  It is better than The 
History Channel.

:-)

Thanks again!

In a message dated 7/13/2004 12:10:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Johnson, Glen" 
<GJohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>A 4 door Sedan has a pillar from the floor to the roof, between the front and 
>rear doors.  A two door Sedan has a pillar between the front door and the rear 
>side window.  The pillar is called a 'B' pillar.  The 'A' pillar is the 
>windshield corner and the 'C' pillar is the rear roof corner.
>A hardtop, either 2 or 4 door, does not have a 'B' pillar.  When the windows 
>are down, it's air from 'A' to 'C'.
>Hope that clears it up.
>Glen Johnson
>1965 LeBaron
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: JosephStil@xxxxxxx [mailto:JosephStil@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 11:23 AM
>To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: IML: 69 sedan
>
>
>Good morning again, everyone:
>
>OK.  I cannot get this straight in my head (and my father-in-law who was in 
>the body shop business tried to explain this to me several times), how can one 
>tell the difference between a hardtop and a sedan?
>
>If I have it in writing I won't have to rely on my feeble memory.  :-)
>
>In a message dated 7/12/2004 10:29:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Peter Engel" 
><peter.engel@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>>Hey Elijah, good catch on the non A/C issue!  I had to go back and look
>>at the pics, eventually discovering that I needed to pan to the right to
>>see the center dash area.  Just a blanking plate there.  Weird.
>>
>>I should have pointed out a few things about 69s earlier:
>>
>>My book shows that the sedan and hardtop listed at the exact same price,
>>$6411.00  I suspect that this is a misprint though since sedan styles
>>were just about always cheaper than hardtop styles.  For the 68 model
>>year the price difference between sedan and hardtop was about $500.00
>>
>>According to this book 96% of 69 Imperials had a vinyl top.
>>
>>It seems that the sedan is the same color as my 70 LeBaron, teal
>>metallic.  The repaint seems to be darker though.
>>
>>The interior color is exactly the same as the 10,000 mile 69 LeBaron
>>4DHT I posted pics of a couple of years ago.  It was interesting to see
>>2 versions (sedan and hardtop) of that color dash, upholstery.
>>
>>While I'm not terribly interested in owning a sedan Imperial, the larger
>>rear window of the Crown does look good to me.  Some years ago I chopped
>>up a wrecked 71 LeBaron and cut away the vinyl top covering to expose
>>the rear window area.  As I suspected, LeBaron models were fitted with a
>>fiberglass plate that reduced the rear window to LeBaron "limousine"
>>size.
>>
>>
>>
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