Patent ID: 7150491

Claim:
In a convertible motor vehicle adapted to move in a normal travel direction and having a seat and a storage compartment extending transversely of the direction behind the seat, the improvement comprising: a rigid roof shell having two rear end posts defining a rear opening; two guide rails extending in the direction and transversely spaced from each other on the vehicle rearward of the storage compartment; respective guide slides displaceable along the guide rails between front and back end positions, the posts being pivotal on the slides about a horizontal axis extending transversely of the direction; a drive shaft extending transversely of the direction between the slides; respective entrainment elements spanned over the drive shaft and connected to the slides; drive means connected to the roof shell and to the shaft for synchronously displacing the slides between their end positions and pivoting the shell on the slides for shifting the shell between an up position with the shell extending horizontally in the direction forward of the seat in the front end positions of the slides into a down position with the shell extending vertically in the compartment in the rear end positions of the slides; and a rear windshield displaceable into a raised position fitting between the rear end posts of the windshield in the up position thereof and closing the rear opening.