Town car
A town car is a historical automobile body style in which the front seats were open and the rear compartment closed, normally with a removable top to cover the front chauffeur's compartment. The modern Lincoln Town Car derives its name, but nothing else, from this style, although a special Lincoln built in 1922 for Henry Ford's personal use was called a Town Car.[1]
In Europe the style is known as Sedanca de Ville, often shortened to Sedanca or de Ville. The name Sedanca was introduced by the Spanish Count Salamanca in the 1920s.[2]
In 1940 and 1941, a limited edition model of the Cadillac Sixty Special was named Town Car - reintroduced as a hardtop in 1949 but translated into French as Coupe DeVille and in 1956 as a four-door hardtop as Sedan DeVille.
[edit] See also
- Landaulet - the opposite with the rear convertible and the front closed
- Coupé de ville - only 2-doors and without a division between (open) driver and (closed) passengers
[edit] References
- ^ About Lincoln: The Roaring '20s
- ^ Automobile Body Design. Ian Beattie. Haynes Publishing 1977. ISBN 0-85429-217-9
[edit] External links
Media related to Sedanca de Ville at Wikimedia Commons
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