And I think we've got some new construction techniques now that will allow us to get back into pillarless hardtops.

The ascendancy of monocoque construction also made the pillarless design less practical.

Q. Personally, I'd like to see the return of the pillarless hardtop.

The pillarless designs could be expensive to produce, added wind noise, and created structural issues with body torque.

The car also contains pillarless windows that provide an unobstructed view for occupants when the large soft top is down.

Some of the car's weight may have been due to its pillarless "hardtop" body style, which lacked a "B" post.

This pillarless body style offers greater visibility.

Concave side panels add interest, and glossy black trim around the windows makes the car look like a pillarless coupe.

A pillarless saloon joined the range.

At its introduction the Celica was only available as a pillarless hardtop notchback coupe.

It came as a pillarless hardtop with simulated woodgrain siding as standard.

The Ambassador was available in a body style exclusive to its line, a pillarless hardtop "Cross Country" station wagon.

Unlike the eventual production car, the Tube Car was of a pillarless hardtop design with suicide doors.

Barris also pioneered a more advanced form, where the B-pillar is removed turning it into a pillarless hardtop in the process.

The body range was further reduced to the two-door saloon, pillarless saloon and four-seat tourer.

Pillarless hardtops were discontinued, the result of rumors of federal rollover standards looming in the near future.

Vehicles omitting the B-pillar were once widely called pillarless hardtops or hardtops.

It is what used to be called a hardtop, and its pillarless design and standard sunroof make it the next best thing to a convertible.

However, for Canada and other foreign markets, Studebaker made a pillarless hardtop (model 56G-K7) available.

All 1962 Fairlanes had "B" posts despite the popularity of the pillarless hardtop and convertible styles in that era.

A pillarless hardtop is inherently less rigid than a pillared body, requiring extra underbody strength to prevent shake.

The pillarless design unfortunately made it less rigid and the handling was thus poorer than that of the two-door cars, and surviving examples are rare.

For the first time, a wide fixed "B" pillar was used, reflecting Detroit's abandonment of pillarless hardtops in the mid- and late-1970s.

Originally referred to as 'hard-top convertibles', these vehicles offered pillarless design in the door and window areas, along with the top-grade convertible appointments.

Six were convertibles, but as these suffered from rigidity troubles the rest of the large two-door Facels were pillarless coupés.