Patent ID: 6929317

Claim:
Removable roof for a motor vehicle passenger car, which covers an opening between a windshield frame and a body frame structure of a body of the passenger car extending behind vehicle occupant seats, the removable roof including two roof elements, each of said roof elements being held in position by a form-lockingly operating fixing system and by a locking system, which locking system is operative between the roof and the vehicle body frame structure constructed as a rollover bar system, wherein the locking system has at least one locking device cooperating with the rollover bar system and comprising an operating device with a locking pin which engages in a closing crank, wherein the operating device is fastened to one of the roof elements and the closing crank is fastened to the rollover bar system, wherein the locking pin is mounted on a crank arm connected with a swivel shaft, which swivel shaft is connected with a manual lever, and wherein the manual lever comprises a control plate rotatable about a vehicle longitudinally extending axis and having a surface which is aligned flush with respect to interior walls of one of the roof elements.