Last Thursday, Hooniverse published a pair of posts that featured the Subaru Brat and the Lambo LM002. I was struck by something these two vehicles had in common: enclosed cabins plus uncovered jump seats. Both force certain passengers to ride out in the wind, rain and sun with no option of a convertible top, while the driver sits ensconced in the climate-controlled shade and quiet of an enclosed cabin with a fixed steel roof. How many vehicles have this arrangement?
Well, that’s where the magic of our commenters’ hive mind comes in. As every Monday, your task is to help us construct just such a comprehensive list in the comment section below.
The caveats: NONE! It’s an all-skate. It’s more fun when as many people as possible participate, so I am leaving this one wide open. Any age, any type of vehicle. Just so long as at least one passenger is forced to sit out in the open, and at least one other is in an enclosed, fixed-roof cabin.
Difficulty: See above. A blue run. Not quite a gimmie, but you should make it through without crashing out.
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Encyclopedia Hoonatica: Inside & Outside Seating
By Peter Tanshanomi
Apr 27, 2015
By Peter Tanshanomi
Tanshanomi is Japanese [単車のみ] for "motorcycle(s) only." Though primarily tasked with creating two-wheel oriented content for Hooniverse, Pete is a lover of all sorts of motorized vehicles.
Robert Crespo 
Jeff Glucker 
Kamil Kaluski
How about with the driver inside and ANOTHER DRIVER outside! That’s gota be the ultimate win no?
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3923/14713052549_0ac4eefe06_z.jpg
A long time ago (like right after WWII) my dad was a fireman and had to drive the tiller on one of those rigs. It’s quite an art, with hard steering and counter steering and precision timing required.
Can’t be that hard…
Ford Model A, among others, had a rumble seat.
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6145/6016941536_54a02b2ca7.jpg
Pretty much anything with a rumble seat. The last attempt was the AMX.
http://www.amx390.com/Art/AMX/amx1/amxrumble1.jpg
It never made it past the concept stage.
That is absolutely fantastic!
Cadillac made 10 rumble seat Eldorados in ’76. I think they were all convertibles, though, and thus they miss out on the fixed roof qualification for acceptance into today’s category.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3250/3026559958_38a137f823.jpg
Someone even made an aftermarket rumble seat for Mustangs.
http://image.mustangandfords.com/f/65474531+w620+re0/galpin-ford-galpinizing-the-mustang-trunk-conversion.jpg
There was also the Mustang II Sportiva prototype, but I believe it was technically just a targa convertible, not a rumble. Still cool.
http://shnack.com/gallery/11/10420_sportiva_II_vert.jpg
Targas count?
A Targa is practically the same as a wing.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a6/0d/02/a60d020a2deb1cf5f9ba5917be35b516.jpg
http://imhd.zoznam.sk/transport/media/gn/00001094/karosa-cabrio-stale-nemoze-jazdit.jpg
Is that an Ikarus?
So why does the driver still have a cab? Wind/rain protection? Structural rigidity? People at work are supposed to miss out on all the fun?
Bugatti Royale
http://cdn.silodrome.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Bugatti-Royale-1928.jpg
That is the traditional Town Car style, the opposite of what is asked for here. Very common on 1920s and 30s luxury cars. Chauffeurs apparently where worth protecting from the elements.
“Just so long as at least one passenger is forced to sit out in the
open, and at least one other is in an enclosed, fixed-roof cabin.”
“while the driver sits ensconced in the climate-controlled shade and quiet of an enclosed cabin with a fixed steel roof.”
You may want to read the question again…
Yes, but I will allow it. Because Bugatti Royale.
Enclosed cab/exposed driver was the original meaning of “brougham,” dating back to horse carriages.
http://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/1905_Hedag_Electric_Brougham_photo2.jpg
A personal favorite, the Thames Motor Stage Coach by Thrupp & Maberly. A fixed roof is just another name for a fixed floor.
http://www.coachbuild.com/gallery/d/51881-2/Thrupp_Maberly_Thames_48-HP_Motor_Stage_Coach_1913_02.jpg
That’s the Britishest name ever. BTW, i would hoon the wheels off of that !
Well then you have to include this…
http://www.orangecountydoubledeckerbus.com/buses/double2.jpg
This one is perfect for midnight rides.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sVsNcl-Zk-k/T0ZcygaXGbI/AAAAAAAAAis/wRPDX4gZcu4/s1600/raiders+coach.jpg
Not sure what the make/model is, only things i know is that it’s italian and from the 20s/30s.
http://www.tramroma.com/images/archivio/063/06324a.jpg
Kissel, made famous by Amelia Earhart. http://www.remarkablecars.com/main/kissel/kissel.jpg
And just to confirm there was a top for the driver, although not a hard fixed-roof: https://classiccarweekly.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/1920-kissel-gold-bug-speedster.jpg
That seat poking out was, I believe, referred to as a “mother-in-law seat”.
Where do running boards fall on this? Specifically those designed to be used when the vehicle is in motion. http://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.1601517.1385036299!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_620_330/image.jpg
(Second mention today of the Kennedy Lincoln.)
Isuzu Amigo.
“…with no option of a convertible top.”
Oh, I’m sorry. You don’t get to go on to the lighting round to play for the big money, but we do have some nice parting gifts for you back stage and a copy of the Hooniverse board game for you to play at home.
D’oh!
Hooniverse board game?!? Where do I get one of those?
Am I doing it right?
If so, then so am I:
http://www.funny-potato.com/images/trains/trains-india/standard-class-train.jpg
If I did it right, you did it way better… except for that rail thing.
Apparently there can be more than one.
I can’t offer a rigid roof for the driver, but what I do have to offer is this 1921 Ehrhardt-Szawe 10/50PS Sportphaeton with folding seats in the running boards that I’ve just personally photographed from a 1975 East German book about vintage cars from what at the time were East German territories called “Ahnen unserer Autos” (“Ancestors of our Cars”). Ehrhardt was a small Dusseldorf and Zella based company founded after WW1 by a former engineer from Dixi cars in Eisenach and bought out by Szawe in 1922 before defaulting in 1924 and ultimately folding in 1927 due to the general economic situation. Occasionally their cars were also advertised under the Pluto marque, and the advertisements never failed to mention that the cars were made from, and I quote, “first class materials and cannon steel!”
Yeah, it’s the driver out in the open but I’m posting it anyway:
http://www.jayohrberg.com/resources/_wsb_504x378_Pink-Panther+12.jpg
The animal world is cool with design copies.
http://images.gutefrage.net/media/fragen-antworten/bilder/34592420/0_big.jpg
There’s always the Celica Cruising Deck.
http://www.carstyling.ru/resources/concept/99toyota_celica_cruising_deck_3.jpg
Replying to myself since I just saw that this isn’t the first Toyota to do that, see the CAL-1:
http://www.carstyling.ru/resources/concept/1977_Toyota_CAL-1_Concept_01.jpg
Oh wow. Such class. Very Teak.
Amidoinitrite?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Ferret_armoured_car,_Bridgehead_2011_pic2.JPG/1280px-Ferret_armoured_car,_Bridgehead_2011_pic2.JPG
In Soviet Russia….
http://www.2worldwar2.com/images/t-34-tank.jpg
Protect the armor plating by strapping some meat bags on the outside!
No, but you get my upvote because Ferret.
So I suppose that this counts too?
http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib/61/media-61091/standard.jpg
Opel Frontera Sport
http://www.the-blueprints.com/modules/cardata/photos/opel_frontera_sport_15778.jpg
That doesn’t look like an Opel to me, amigo.
http://tanshanomi.com/temp/image-macros/iseewhatyoudidthere.jpg
Isuz what you did there…
He’s a real trooper.
Well, this ain’t his first Rodeo.
This sort of arrangement was popular with SUVs in the 90s for some reason
http://okaycrete.com/uploads/rent/cars/gallery/4ac90-Suzuki-Grand-Vitara-Cabriolet-1.6-2000.jpg
(this has a convertible top though)
It started in the 1970s with the Blazer and Bronco. http://coloradok5.com/reviewpics/canbackmain1.jpg
All K-5 Blazers have removable tops, in 1976 they got the half cab. The 1978 and up Broncos were similar. (Fun fact: until 1976 the top, passenger’s seat, and rear seat were technically optional on the Blazer)
The K5 Blazer was redesigned in the early 90’s and became fixed-roof-only thereafter.
Those are K 1500 Blazers.
Wikipedia doesn’t seem to care.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_K5_Blazer
Probably my favorite trucks.
Not an correct answer but still, Monaco’s royal Lexus LS600hL doesn’t seem to have soft-top.
http://www.houseofjapan.com/images/2011/07/lexuslivemonacowed3.jpg
Land Rover pickup trucks sometimes have seats in the bed, since you can easily convert a soft top or wagon with factory seats to a pickup, or put seats into a factory pickup
http://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/1963_Land_Rover_88_Series_II_Pickup_For_Sale_Side_1.jpg
Also: Scout 80/800. One of my dad’s had the long roof, and he converted it to a pickup with the short roof & bulkhead from a parts Scout.
1956 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Town Car Concept, a slightly more recent take on the prewar open-driver-compartment limousine.
http://www.supercars.net/carpics/5253/1958_Cadillac_EldoradoBroughamTownCarPrototype2.jpg
http://www.inetours.com/New_York/Images/Tours/DD-Bus_9083.jpg
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/arresteddevelopment/images/0/03/2x12_Hand_to_God_(56).png/revision/latest/scale-to-width/670?cb=20130123233849
Do hop-ons count as “sitting out in the open?
Deco liner can be driven from outside or inside. Passengers can ride in either area, too.
http://www.rv123.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/decoliner.jpg
That is so wild…would be even easier to design something like this today, with digital everything. Just add some kind of rollover-safety.
Designing it would be very much the same today. It was designed about 5 tears ago.
http://www.randygrubb.com/the-decoliner/
No need for rollover safety. If you drive this automotive masterpiece like an idiot, you deserve what you get.
Did anyone see these things on Shark Tank? Basically bolting two racing seats into your pickup bed. I wonder if you could turn them around the other way?
Skoda Felicia Fun.
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5151b481e4b01fd1f7075ea1/t/53d77da1e4b04ced59317c0a/1406631329433/skoda-felicia-fun.jpg
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5151b481e4b01fd1f7075ea1/t/53d77d8be4b04ced59317bf0/1406631312871/skoda-felicia-fun.jpg
Golfinger’s Rolls-Royce Phantom III
http://pics.imcdb.org/0is255/goldfingerrolls5dp4.5117.jpg