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MrCadillac
One of the appendices to the "Styling" section of my Cadillac Database gives the encyclopaedic definition of the various body styles and types of wheeled vehicles, including the horse-drawn versions of today's automobiles:
www.car-nection.com/yann/Dbas_txt/Sty_apdx.htm
Like "Wrenchhead", I'm old and I like things simple yet precise. If American-English is to be the language of the site, then we need to use proper definitions in that language. In French, for example, a "Coupe de Ville" is what the Americans call a "Town Car" (a car with no roof, or a removable one, over the driver's compartment). The Cadillac "Coupe de Ville" has no relation to either; it is simply a model NAME that was added to the firm's catalog in 1949. The idea of basic categories like car, truck, bike, military, farm, bus, construction/ warehouse, and custom vehicles is a good one, provided there is a "box" of sufficient size to include salient information of interest to the researcher and historian.
www.car-nection.com/yann/Dbas_txt/Sty_apdx.htm
Like "Wrenchhead", I'm old and I like things simple yet precise. If American-English is to be the language of the site, then we need to use proper definitions in that language. In French, for example, a "Coupe de Ville" is what the Americans call a "Town Car" (a car with no roof, or a removable one, over the driver's compartment). The Cadillac "Coupe de Ville" has no relation to either; it is simply a model NAME that was added to the firm's catalog in 1949. The idea of basic categories like car, truck, bike, military, farm, bus, construction/ warehouse, and custom vehicles is a good one, provided there is a "box" of sufficient size to include salient information of interest to the researcher and historian.