After removing most of the body (and fenders), an empty platform on the ladder-frame chassis was mounted with one or two seats, a gas tank, and spare tyres. The cut-down speedster body-style really took form in the 1900s.
Some of the earliest race cars were purpose-built or stripped for the greatest speed, with minimal or no bodywork at all, leading to a body style aptly named 'speedster'. History Īuto racing began with the first earnest contests in 1894 in Europe, and in 1895 in the United States. An alternative explanation for the term, used principally on Italian cars, is simply the Italian transliteration of "speeder" or "speedster", originating in a reporter's crackly telephone call to Italy in 1953 about the Porsche 550 "Speedster" (a car driven by James Dean). Some 19th-century lightweight horse-drawn phaetons had a small body and large wooden wheels with thin spokes they were nicknamed "spiders" because of their appearance the nickname was transferred to sports cars, although they did not look similar. The term "spider" or "spyder," sometimes used in names for convertible models, is said to come from before the automobile era. It is noted that the optional 4-seat variant of the Morgan Roadster would not be technically considered a roadster. Since the 1950s, the term "roadster" has also been increasingly used in the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, historically, the preferred terms were "open two-seater" and "two-seat tourer". : 258 Roadsters usually had a hooded dashboard.
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It may have additional seats on running boards or in rear deck." Since it has a single row of seats, the main seat for the driver and passenger was usually further back in the chassis than it would have been in a touring car. In 1916, the United States Society of Automobile Engineers defined a roadster as: "an open car seating two or three. By the end of the century, the definition had expanded to include bicycles and tricycles. The term "roadster" originates in the United States, where it was used in the 19th century to describe a horse suitable for travelling. Early roadster competing for the Vanderbilt Cup
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