car style names

maple guy

maple guy

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OK, I know COACH is 2 door but how is it different from other 2 doors? I thought TOWN CAR was 4 door but I have seen pictures of 2 door town cars. What does TOWN SEDAN mean? What about BROME? Pictures of old cars do not tell me of exact meaning. Thanks. Lloyd
 
maple guy said:
OK, I know COACH is 2 door but how is it different from other 2 doors? I thought TOWN CAR was 4 door but I have seen pictures of 2 door town cars. What does TOWN SEDAN mean? What about BROME? Pictures of old cars do not tell me of exact meaning. Thanks. Lloyd
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The manufacturers call them what ever they want. No special rules.
For example, '49-'51 Mercury 4dr. is called a "SPORT SEDAN":)
 
Usually the names came from the original horse drawn carriages. Manufacturers of cars modified the names to suit themselves.
 
Brougham, Coupe, Berline, Cabriolet, Limousine and Phaeton are examples of horsedrawn names given to automobile body styles.
 
In the Ford line to name a few, std cpe, delux cpe, roadster, cabriolet, convertable sedan, convertable cpe, tudor, fordor, victoria, touring sedan, club cpe,phaeton and many more depending on YOM.
 
Maple, Brougham (not Brome), and all the rest (as reminded by Henry) including your Coach, were horse drawn vehicles before they were model names for cars. I don't know of a Ford "Coach" unless it was a bus?
 
Coach seems to have been a common name for a 2 dr Sedan, especially in Canada during the '20's & '30's.
Ford did coin the names Tudor & Fordor ; names look unique but phonetically tell you what they are. Here in NZ, & I think in Aussie & Britain, Tudor often gets pronounced ''Chewdoor'' because of the English royal house connection of Henry Tudor [ Henry V111].
At least Anglophiles can not mispronounce 'Fordor''. I also like to avoid the European Coupay when common ''Coupe'' tells you what it is.
 
According to the "Chevs of the 40's" catalog, Chevrolet manufactured
a Coach body style in 1937, 1938, and 1939. This body style does not
appear in the Chevrolet listing for 1940. I have no data for 1936 back.
I do not remember ever hearing of a Ford body style called Coach
and what a Chevrolet Coach looks like is a mystery to me.
 
Brand X mfg a series of two door vehicles from 24-37 called coaches according to my Clymer series on the Stove bolt. 38's and above were called town sedan.
 
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