Automobile hard top convertible

Claim 1

A motor vehicle in combination with a removable top, said vehicle comprising a body having a rearwardly hinged trunk lid, said trunk lid being raisable towards the rear of said vehicle to reveal a storage compartment located therein, an upstanding windshield at a front portion of the body of said vehicle, a passenger compartment located generally between said storage compartment and said windshield, said top including a rigid overhead component for overlying said passenger compartment, a frame cage located behind said passenger compartment, said frame cage having spaced vertical end members, said top overhead component being pivotally connected at its rear end portion to said frame cage end members, wherein said top is rotatable with said trunk lid opened between an open position in which the top rests within said storage compartment and a closed position in which said overhead component of the top overlies said passenger compartment of the vehicle and is supported thereover by said windshield and cage, said trunk lid adapted to overlie said top in a closed orientation when the top is in its open position, said top including a flexible rear window component extending from said rear end portion of the top overhead component, means for releasably securing said top rear window component to said vehicle body when the top is in its said closed position.