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

[Slatskars]

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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