[TR] First ride

[John A. Wise]

I believe that the very small piece of cloth that can be used to cover the
head of the driver of the new Porsche Boxster Spyder is call a "bikini" top.

John


On  5 Apr, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Randall wrote:

>> The confusion may have started when someone combined Bimini
>> with Birkin to denote sunshades for Birkin cars.  The
>> Birkini.  Someone else wanted to denote such a device for any
>> car and mistook the construction as coming from bikini.
>
> Just to show that I'm not the only one confused; "Bikini Top" is actually a
> registered trademark for a similar cover made for Jeeps & similar:
>
> Randall
>

John A. Wise
Glendale, AZ

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