fixt: Guys, if you get bored with this one, go to search, whole bunch of threads on this.

Ragtop.

NCRS types like the word "roadster" because it suggests exoticism and reinforces their misconception that their prized possession is worth more than the Hope Diamond.

Most normal, non-OCD afflicted and non-delusional people use convertible, droptop, 'vert and ragtop almost interchangeably.

Landau, cabriolet and drophead are also permissible.

'drophead'... ???? :rofl:
Bill

You guys that feel so strongly against the word "vert" are being a little picky. I admit to stirring the pot when I said I had a predilection FOR the word [I don't], but c'mon, are you really going to disparage a fellow Corvette nut if he uses the word "vert" but accept him if he likes the time-honored phrase "ragtop" or some such thing? They are all, after all, colloquialisms, are they not? I'm not sure anything of this sort should divide old Corvette folks into "Ok versus not-Ok" enthusiasts... hopefully you know it's true, too.

When I order a Coke, I don't ask for a "pop" nor do I ask for a "soda," but my wife will ask for a "soda" because she went to school in E. PA. He folks will ask for a "pop." It's cool with me, and I don't think they need to be drawn and quartered for it. :lurk:

yeah, but when i order a Coke at Pizza Hut they ask if Pepsi will be allright...
Bill

I like this as i`m a Roadster person and I think I have enough seniority in Vettes to make that statement......I could add my pet peeve is the word beside 'vert, is 'fuelie!

Uh, I'm 64 and use the term vert. It never was just for the young uns.
But if you consider me young and a hipster, well......thanks!:cheers:

This is getting pretty childish...Kerrmudgeon has said, in a nutshell, you can used any litany of terms I like and you're OK, but use another word and you fall into an undesirable group of Corvette people. Those people must be undesirable because of their shirt and choice of...wax. Yeah?

Really folks?! I am wrong to be surprised where this thread has gone, should have been obvious. It seems the old Corvette world is like High School where you can be in and out of a group in a moment because you fail to say the right thing in the right way at the right time, wear the right thing, or be friendly to the right folks.

When we start talking Corvette seniority, we are taking ourselves way too seriously indeed. I'm guess at 32 years old and a new and old Corvette under my belt, my accepting attitude is probably about to get me run off from here. If it has to be that way it's a shame. But remember, I'll still be waving when I drive by in the 2009, just like I was in the 1969, just like I plan to do in the '65.

I notice you don't hear GrandpaulZ or Garrett drawing and quartering people for saying "vert" or "fuelie" or "SWC" etc. Yeah, they have seniority, but they also have enough class to know better, it seems.

VERT!!

VERT!!

VERT!!

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suggest you drive your corvette roadster immediately to your nearest BMW dealer and trade her in on a shiney new bimmer vert.
you are not worthy.

OK, listen up youngster,
someday you too will be old like us, and you will find the ways of your younger generation at that time to be irritating at the least, and often times offensive. It is the way it is.
second, unless someone is offering some kind of technical advice concerning a C1/2 vette, most of what is bantered about here is nonsense. Don't get your panties all twisted over it. We're just having a little fun with your post. It doesn't mean squat. You're welcome here, just put up a C1/2 as your avatar, and try to remember how much we hate the word vert when describing your soft top vette. We offend easy.

:thumbs: I can appreciate that.

I like a room-for-everyone attitude, and I generally believe that's what's going on here on the C1/C2 forum

I'll still be wavin'.

-b

P.S. I've only ever bought and shopped for coupes, including the present search, so doubtful I will draw any ire when I haul an old car home. Hard to mess up the "coupe" term... but will I be allowed to say it coup-eh in a British accent from time to time?

What I always understood was that; a roadster can have a top but does not have roll up side windows.
I refer to my '65 convertible as a roadster all the time ...
:lurk:

Geez - you youngsters probably don't remember when "flip top" cigarette packs came out in the late '50s. That also became a name for convertible cars for a decade at least (probably longer). I distinctly remember our neighbors '57 'flip top' Chevy BelAir.

I now use 'vert' a whole lot.

Get over it - it's the cell phone/texting millennium.
OMG WTF? ROFLMFAO

Oh and I DO know what a roadster is!

Royt mate.
This apployes to sofabeds as well.
Seriously.
Cheers, and keep it bonnet side up.
Cheerio lad!:thumbs:

I use vert a lot in print, never in conversation. It's easier to type than convertible and anyone with a smidgeon of sense knows what is meant by vert.
I think I'll call my coupe a non-vert.

Frank: is that an "A" model MG of late 50's vintage?

Yup 1959 MGA. With pop out side windows.

My brother had one of those. IIRC you had to assemble the top support frame from a bag of tubes, lay the top over it and snap it down front and rear. Was a great car though.

Great little roadsters, unless the sun goes behind a cloud. Or the likely event that the smoke gets out of the electrical components ....