Re: The Round-up (Was Re: [CBQ] Re: Naperville Crash)

[Stephen Levine <sjl_prodigynet@yahoo.com>]

Charlie

Your explanation makes sense.

It is a beautiful car.

On Thu Apr 15th, 2010 3:28 PM CDT cvlk wrote:

>It probably was done because there was no reason to try to make the roof 
>continous down to the top of the windows.   They had structural members to tie 
>into at the roof/side transition.   Esthetics may have come into play... just 
>like attempting to put on full skirts over the trucks, the unbroken expanse of 
>small corrugations from the top of the windows thru to the roof would have 
>been ugly and would have called attention to the higher profile of the car 
>roof.   As it is they did a credible job of making a silk purse out of a sow's 
>ear!!!
>Charlie Vlk  
>
>Found a photo of The Round-up on the Web.  It definitely has the full car 
>length ridge above the letterboard which is what made me think it was a 
>pre-war car.  I wonder why, when the car was refurbished in stainless steel in 
>1953, that ridge was included.
>
>
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