[ROVERNET - UK] Saloon / Sedan / Hardtop ???

Eric Russell p6rovers at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 17 00:48:17 GMT 2006


Slats,
My "joie de vie" side celebrates that idea. My logical
side wonders about DUI.

Eric


--- Slatskars <slatskars at comcast.net> wrote:

> Eric,
> 
> By co-incidence, our Portland, OR, Club T-MG, new
> events coordinator is 
> instituting a series of pub visits as monthly
> events. Should/could be 
> interesting!
> 
> Slats
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Russell" <p6rovers at yahoo.com>
> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Saloon / Sedan /
> Hardtop ???
> 
> 
> >I enjoyed Glen's unraveling of the Saloon part of
> the
> > name and now find that it is NOT a pub crawler's
> > association ;-))
> >
> > The name of the Rover CAR Club of Canada has a
> similar
> > history.  When we started, there were LAND Rover
> clubs
> > out here.  I contacted the Rover Car Company and
> asked
> > if there were any Rover CAR Clubs in Canada.  They
> > said that there were none registered with them or
> with
> > British Heritage.  The rest is history.
> >
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
> > --- Glen Wilson <glenwilson at cavtel.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Gundry, Kenneth wrote:
> >> > My car was described simply as the
> >> > five-seater, as opposed to several versions of
> the
> >> saloon (hard-top
> >> > sedan in American, I think) and two and four
> seat
> >> sports models.
> >> I don't remember if Steve Manwell had any input
> on
> >> choosing the name
> >> Rover Saloon Touring Club of America for our
> club,
> >> or if it was down to
> >> me. I don't even think the potentially humorous
> play
> >> on words re touring
> >> saloons (i.e. drinking establishments) occurred
> to
> >> me until after the
> >> name was chosen. I think that I was influenced by
> >> the British Automobile
> >> Touring Association of Nova Scotia and the
> British
> >> Saloon Car Club of
> >> Canada.
> >>
> >> The point of this posting is that I am always
> amazed
> >> that so many car
> >> people in the USA have never heard the automotive
> >> term "saloon" before
> >> they encounter our club in some listing.
> Sometimes
> >> they call looking for
> >> some sort of "salon" for classic cars. I put the
> >> word in there to
> >> distinguish it from all of the Land Rover 4WD
> clubs
> >> there are in the USA
> >> and the web. I still hear from people who want to
> >> sell or buy Range
> >> Rovers.  I might have said "Rover Sedan" but
> "Rover
> >> Saloon" seemed more
> >> appropriate and sounded a little bit artsy. I
> >> suppose words like
> >> "cabriolet" would stump the same people except
> for
> >> the sale of VW
> >> drop-tops over here.
> >>
> >> Anyway, that's my thought for the day...
> >>
> >> Glen
> >>
> >>
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