To whoever still cares,
The other day I posted a reply to the " coupe vs sedan vs hardtop " thread.
My reply had a couple objectives involved and I will explain that in a
moment. I have to say first that todays reply to the post I made was
hilarious to me and it made some very good points.
Regarding my post, my first point was that I was actually interested in what
or who actually defined such a thing as a coupe or hardtop. Today there was
a post about some SAE paper that actually defined that. Ok cool....now I
know as well, as quite often things get hazy and many things become
basically group knowledge and are accepted as fact without any regard to
what is actually factual.
Many times in the car hobby we can go to a reference and find out a piston
height, valve size, torque value, paint code etc etc. I admit these are
really not areas to get excited about and make a big deal out of, but when
something incorrect gets repeated often enough, it becomes taken as fact.
To the person who made that post, I had no quarrel over the fact they
posted. I just wanted to make a point and I had a good idea that they would
get the point and not get too upset about it. Todays reply proved that to
me, I thought it was hilarious and it does bring up the idea that if I want
proof of a post, then I should be able to provide same....touche, point well
made. I hope the individual enjoyed that one as much as I did.
Fwiw, I have never ridden in a railway carriage coupe, I would not
recognize one if it was about to run over me. If I did want to know about
them, I would indeed try to be as exhaustive and pursue total accuracy to
the nth degree if at all possible. Perhaps we can take that to the Salon
and research it indepth.
The only other thing I would add....MR Sutton was my Dad. I dont use that
term as I work for a living. I never reply to that either , as generally I
find that the only people who use that term want to sell me something or
presume that I owe them something.
Mikey
62 Crown Coupe
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