Post vs Non-Post car

[rakort]

Sorry, newb question, Can someone explain this? What is the deal with post vs non-post cars?

I understand what the post is, just don't understand what / why certain cars have them

thanks for the education in advance!

Brian

 

[69roadr]

i don't know either, but my preference is non post aka hardtop.

 

[Bb70charger500]

It's a structural thing made the car stiffer . Less twisting , I prefer non post looks much better , I've seen guys cut the post out and make there post cars into non post . In other words if you like them great if not cut them out and make it into a non post car it won't hurt any thing unless your pushing lots of h.p. then I would suggest subframe connectors to stuff up .

 

[Seax440Dodge]

Main thing is the rear window.. the coupes have the flip-out rear side windows, the hardtops have roll-down rear side windows

 

[69roadr]

i found this example on another website:

"There is one other aspect to this which many people overlook; the post cars are Belvedere-based and the hardtops are Satellite-based."

 

[Dreadl0ck]

I really like the non-post cars better but couldn't find one with the rest of the "must haves" so I ended up with a post car - and I enjoy every minute of it. I tell myself it's stiffer down the track

 

[66Satellite47]

In general the "post" cars were the lower line, lower cost sedan models. On some models the posts were lighter weight due to the body structure configuration. Rear window configuration varied by year & model, early B body posts had roll down windows, others not. Like all cars appearance preference varies. As a former owner of a '65 Coronet 426 Street Wedge 4 spd post car, I favor the look of posts in the '65 & earlier cars. But again that's just my opinion.

 

[badlite]

As a rule post cars were cheaper to build, and hard tops were a little better looking.

 

[Sonny Black]

here ya go! top one is a post......second one is hardtop, the dummy did not roll the rear window down!.....:iamwithstupid: maybe he wanted to show all the glass was good & original?

 

[Cranky]

There's also a difference between a sedan and a coupe. When the road runner was first introduced, it was a post car but iirc, it was called a coupe. It had the post, pop out 1/4 windows but the doors had no window frames like a sedan does.

 

[rakort]

Well that was quite an education, Thanks! Sounds like not a black and white situation like an early RR with a post and a roll down rear window. Sounds like many things they did they could mix and match as they please.

 

[383man]

They say the post cars are stiffer and better for racing because of that. My 63 is a hardtop (non-post) car and I do race it sometimes so I added frame connectors and a 6 point rollbar which really stiffened the chassis up. But honestly all of the Mopar muscle cars post and non-post are uni-body cars and if you race them and run a sticky tire then they should all get frame connectors and atleast a 6 point rollbar to stiffen the uni-body up in my opinion. Ron

 

[skrcsmith4]

what is the car

 

[Cranky]

No coupe/post 68-70 B body cars had roll down rear windows and no 68-70 B body cars came as a sedan except for the 4 door cars (sedans had full window frames on the doors). Before that, I don't recall ever seeing any coupes produced that had pop out rear windows like the 68-70 B cars had. So with the road runner and the rest of the B body line up, they only came 3 ways (4 if you count rag tops), hard tops, coupes and 4 door sedans. In 66-67, they came as hard top, 2 and 4 door sedan and rag top. Now the factory did call some of their cars coupes that had no post. They actually looked like a hardtop. For example, my dad had a 56 Plymouth 2 door Sports Coupe. Roll down all the windows and no posts between the 'A' and 'C' pillars....and there were many others that the factory called hardtop looking cars coupes in the brochure.....

 

[Coyoteduster]

What Cranky said, no 68-70 B body 'Post' cars had roll down rear windows. :nono:

 

[red 69 runner]

<ine is a RM21 post car.I like both but am partial to the post car road runners because the post on these cars have the same roof line.I had a 68n Dart post and the roof line is totally differant,the driver door had a frame.

 

[dvw]

Back in the Day post cars were the preferred racers do to the fact that the center of the roof was tied to the 1/4 panel. Funny thing. All Max wedge Savoys were post cars. All Max Wedge Belvedere's were H/T. Now a days with subframe connectors and roll cages it really doesn't matter. 64-67 cars had a completely different roof. 62-63 and 68-70 shared the same roof post (sedan) or H/T.
Doug

 

[bigmanjbmopar]

Not a darn thing wrong with having a RM21 post road runner! I love me HT but would not turn down a post car. mopar or no car!