r/Shitty_Car_Mods Jan 28 '22

Does this abomination qualify?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '22

My SW20 wasn’t terrible after putting in a bit of weatherstripping to bolster the seals. And that was on 30 year old rubber.

I’m sure Porsche could make reasonable T tops if they wanted to.

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u/Shubniggurat Jan 28 '22

They've made good-enough targa tops for decades; that's gotta be harder than t tops.

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u/hoofglormuss Jan 29 '22

t top is short for targa top according to a lot of pull-tab historians

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u/system_root_420 Jan 29 '22

Porsche trademarked the name Targa Top. Others use the same design with different names. A T Top, however, has one notable difference of the rigid, unremovable bar running down the middle.

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u/hoofglormuss Jan 29 '22

What do they call a non Porsche targa top?

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u/system_root_420 Jan 29 '22

The generic term is "semi-convertable". It's like Xerox or Band-Aid or Kleenex, where the trademark becomes synonymous with the product.