What are the odds?
A Classic green pearl SC400 would also be a factory Hardtop?
Was the original owner making a statement or was it coincidences?

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My car was originally from the factory that classic green pearl, then had it custom painted over to what it is now, indigo purple.
It has been that color for the last 20 or so years. If you run a vin search the car still comes up as that classic green. My 400 is an original factory hardtop
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What are the odds?
A Classic green pearl SC400 would also be a Hardtop?
Was the original owner making a statement or was it coincidences?

 

Does anyone know how many SC400 hardtops were made?

 

I don't think its a statement as much as preference for this individual. Few different perspectives from today still hold true in the past for buyers; a hardtop allowed for more headroom for taller individuals. A hardtop was scene as more simple and less problematic in a rapidly electricizing world, and less prone to "leaks". A hard-top was also cheaper, if only by a thousand or so.

Not sure how many were built though.

 

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The point in the statement "What are the odds" the original owner, for whatever the reason picked one of the rarest colors and then picked the rarest body style, a hardtop.
Were these deliberate decisions or just coincidences. Either way, curious.
What are the odds a jade pearl green color SC400 would also be a hardtop and how rare would the car be?

 

Unfortunately all of this kind of information has long since been purged from the Lexus sales database, so I don't think we'll ever know definitively how many slicktop cars were made.

 

Where did the term slicktop come from?

 

The term has been around for quite some time and, in my honest opinion, might better represent the delineation between a sunroof equipped and a non-sunroof equipped car.

I think hardtop might be better used when describing whether a car has a convertible top or not. Just my $.02.

 

This is how I always saw it as well. I felt like having the slicktop would be less of a headache down the road but they were so rare and expensive by the time I started looking for SC’s in 2008. If I were buying a new car today I would want a slicktop but they don’t give you a choice these days.

 

OK, 2 things.
1. What are the odds? I was trying to get at.
That an SC400 painted the rare color, Jade pearl classic green and had the rare hardtop body is the only one like that built.
And how rare a Lexus would that Be?

2.Hardtop/slicktop
We all know the pros and cons of them. What I'm trying to say, I've had my hardtop for around 20 yrs, in that time I've never heard the word slicktop. Either in this forum or out on the road. The car gets a lot of shout outs, but I've never heard, "Hey, nice slicktop," heard everything else but not that. I looked even thru this thread that was just bumped up

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sc-...ted-sc300.html

and no where is a hardtop referenced as slicktop. Only "Hardtop" is used through out the thread.

I heard slicktop used about a year or so ago by Bimmer Bill, (I hope he's still out there and alright!) he knew the term quite well.
But honestly, it sounds too Slimy for me. My car needs something more masculine, like "Hardtop."
But that just me

 

"Hardtop" and "Slicktop" are pretty interchangeable across many classic niche owner groups. I used to say "non-sunroof" and surprisingly that's the least common term despite probably being the most accurate.

All SC/Soarer roofs are aerodynamically "slick" and since no convertible version was ever made they've all got "hard" roofs.

For instance when I would hunt around for an old Suzuki Samurai (Jimny) since most sold in the U.S. are convertible tops, the "slicktop" all-metal roof rarer editions are more sought after. That was just the descriptor that all the Samurai owners used.

 

Yes, I saw your post in that thread that was recently bumped and Kira had a post in it too.
and you did use the term "non sun roof", you were the only one. I thought that was Kool and quite descriptive