As a youngster in Gulfport,Mississippi I had never heard of a Koop, except for chickens, the cars were called a Koopay, French, I assume. Do any of you Model T drivers drive a Koopay, or do you drive a Koop as now I have have learned to do?
The dictionary says either is correct. Coupe is most common. Coupé comes from the French carrosse coupé, literally "cut carriage", a closed carriage for two passengers and a driver.
I usually just use "koop", however sometimes use the longer version "koopay". With mine, I often refer to it as the "well accessorized coupe".
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
Coupé du médecin?
Ted, How many doors are there in a chicken coop?
In Canada this is a Coupe, Eh.
Rich
Thomas,
I am not sure but a chicken sedan has 4 doors.
No one has mentioned the Doctor's Koopay. Sorry, every discussion about a tow seat vehicle's got to bring this subject up.
Here, they were called Koop. Koopay was only used by snooty people!
Terry, Mr. Jelf beat you to the Dr koop comment.
Our chicken coop had 3, one for me, one for the chickens and one for the eggs (it was under a lid so guess it could be the trunk)!
Sorry, Gustaf, the only language that I speak or read is English, so I missed it.
Wasn't Dr. Koop the surgeon General for a while?
Yes, and a good one, too.
So if C.Everett Koop had a coupe would it be a doctor's coupe or a Surgeon General's coupe, or just Koop's coupe?
With apologizes to -Metzger and-Flanders this is an Everitt Koop. &0<
Rich
(EMF)
That Everitt Coupe has two horizontal beads below the glass, like a Coupe-let. Or is it Coupe-a-lay?
That EMF coupe' is a fixed top coupe. After Studebaker fully took over EMF and changed the name to "Studebaker" (late 1912/'13), they produced folding top convertible coupes. I do not recall what they called them, however, I have heard them referred to as "coupelets" by a few people. Several of these do still exist, I have seen a couple.
I don't know if EMF produced a folding top coupe or not. But I gotta say, I like that car!
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2