Thanks Steve. The Langworth book says the convertible was built one at a time in a special room, started as a coupe, roof cut 9 inches aft of the windshield header to give a modicum of rollover strength. This is one reason I thought the Hollywood roof came from the coupe too, the cutters simply keeping more of the sheetmetal.
Regarding our search for height reduction enablers, found this little gem from the '48 brochure: "A 'six footer' in a sombrero could sit erect in the rear seat."
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