Mercedes 220SL Concept car ?

[GGR]

So Gael, are we going to modify your hardtop C pillar to resemble the prototype and your coupe?

Good idea ! Let's make my Coupe a Cabrio and let's use the roof on the Pagoda !

[Flyair]

Now that you say it, and from  the tone of Paul Bracq's comment in the video, indeed, it could be interpreted as an old disagreement. But that's speculation. I don't even know if a Hard Top is supposed to be part of the car's rigidity in case of roll over. I guess the fixing points would break ?

I am sure that they must have tasted the HT in term of resistance to dissociation from the body. However, if the HT were to break away in case of roll over, the form of the roof should not matter. Yet Paul Bracq's words suggested otherwise.