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The torpedo body style was a type of automobile body used from 1908 until the mid-1930s, which had a streamlined profile and a folding or detachable
The torpedo body style was a type of automobile body used from 1908 until the mid-1930s, which had a streamlined profile and a folding or detachable soft top
A convertible or cabriolet () is a passenger car
A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport p ...
. The design consists of a hood or bonnet line raised to be level with the car's waistline, resulting in a straight beltline
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from front to back.
The name was introduced in 1908 when Captain Theo Masui, the London
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-based importer of French Gregoire cars, designed a streamlined body and called it "The Torpedo".
The Torpedo body style was usually fitted to four- or five-seat touring car
Touring car and tourer are both terms for open cars (i.e. cars without a fixed roof).
"Touring car" is a style of open car built in the United States which seats four or more people. The style was popular from the early 1900s to the 1930s.
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s (cars without a fixed roof) with detachable or folding roof, and low side panels and doors. Torpedo cars did not have B pillar
The pillars on a car with permanent roof body style (such as four-door sedans) are the vertical or nearly vertical supports of its window area or greenhouse—designated respectively as the ''A, B, C'' and (in larger cars such as 4-door stat ...
s, so the only uprights present were those supporting the windshield
The windshield (North American English) or windscreen (Commonwealth English) of an aircraft, car, bus, motorbike, truck, train, boat or streetcar is the front window, which provides visibility while protecting occupants from the elements. ...
.
Similar styles are phaeton and baquet.
The name is also used for trucks with a hood or bonnet.
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