Convertible hard-top passenger vehicle

Claim 1

A hard-top convertible passenger vehicle having a fore-and-aft body having a fore-and-aft belt line and including a passenger compartment delineated at its front by a windshield, at opposite sides by longitudinal right and left side walls and at its rear by a rearwardly extending deck having a closed lid at about the belt line of the body and a bipositionable hard top, characterized in that transversely alined right and left rigid post elements are fixedly carried respectively by the right and left side walls closely adjacent to a forward portion of the deck and rise therefrom to upper end portions disposed at a level appreciably above that of the side walls, belt line and deck lid and the hard top is an L-shaped structure including a roof and right and left leg members fixed to the roof and extending respectively closely alongside the post elements and pivoted to the upper end portions of said elements on a transverse axis for swinging of the top between an up mode in which the roof extends forwardly from the post elements and overlies the passenger compartment to an inverted storage mode in which the roof uncovers the compartment and extends rearwardly of the post elements and overlies the deck lid.