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Instant Convertible
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In chase scenes, there comes a time when the trailer of a Mack blocks the driver's path. And, there isn't time to avoid a collision. What does one do? Answer: DUCK. If the car is low enough and/or the trailer high enough, most of the car will pass under it safely. Except for the roof and windows. The car is perfectly drivable afterward. The driver may even remark, "I've always wanted a convertible." Hence, the name of the trope. Sometimes, if the car's low enough, it might just fit Under the Truck. The MythBusters show this trope is Truth in Television: their tow cable-guided test car kept going until it left the test site and crashed into a ravine. A Sub-Trope of Low Clearance. |
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The long chase scene in The Seven-Ups ends with one of these. Only the front half of Roy Scheider's car gets sliced off, though. | |
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Terminator Terminator 2: Judgment Day: As the T-1000 pursues John Connor down the L.A. River basin in a stolen tow truck, at one point they come across a bridge with very low clearance. The bridge ends up shearing the roof off the tow truck's cab, though the T-1000 is able to duck in time. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines does this with a hearse, badly damaging the T-X actively trying to cut through the roof in the process. |
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Happens to a police car in the live-action Disney comedy No Deposit, No Return. | |
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Happened in an episode of Megas XLR when Coop was taking a driving test at the DMV. | |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day: As the T-1000 pursues John Connor down the L.A. River basin in a stolen tow truck, at one point they come across a bridge with very low clearance. The bridge ends up shearing the roof off the tow truck's cab, though the T-1000 is able to duck in time. | |
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This happens in the Miami Vice episode "Stone's War" to a car driven by the CIA which is chasing Crockett and Stone. | |
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The Mythbusters clip mentioned above begins with footage from the CHiPs episode "MAIT Team". | |
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A particularly comedic example occurs in The Naked Gun when the car in question broadsides into a tanker truck, provoking a large explosion. When it emerges from the other side of the conflagration, the top of the burning vehicle is indeed sheared off, and the unfortunate driver is sprawled on the hood, still holding the severed steering wheel. Things only get worse for him after that. | |
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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez: One of the earliest known examples on film was done by Sister Clotilde with a wooden barrier, during one of her Drives Like Crazy moments. It's only part of the complete trashing she proceeds to inflict on her poor 2CV. | |
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The opening credits of The Fall Guy included a shot of Colt Seavers (Lee Majors) driving a car as it skids under a truck trailer and loses its roof. | |
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Done in The Bad Guys (2022) by Shark to Wolf's car during the armored truck chase when he throws Piranha at the trucks by tearing off the roof. Wolf is less than amused by this. | |
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It happens to Roscoe's cruiser in a few episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard. | |
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The Double-Decker Bus vs Low Bridge variant happens frequently in Britain, and occasionally with low-hanging tree branches. One such bus had its roof sliced off near Parliament; even the magic of Harry Potter (advertised on the bus) did not save it. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), during the highway chase, a tiny Robotnik drone cuts off the top of Tom's truck with a laser cutter. | |
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Played often for laughs in Mortadelo y Filemón, where a random driver may wish to have a convertible instead of his tin can... and get his wish fulfilled thanks to them, but certainly not as he expected. | |
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James Bond 007 shears the top off a doubledecker bus by going under a low bridge in Live and Let Die. This is one of many mishaps that happens to Bond's Renault in A View to a Kill, as seen in the page image. |
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In Soul Eater Giriko complains the limousine Arachne's Butler arranged to pick them up with after she was resurrected was too cramped and invoked this trope while it was still stationary. Being an Ax-Crazy guy with the ability to turn into a chainsaw does that. | |
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In the American Dad! episode "Dungeons and Wagons", when Stan, Francine, and Roger are fleeing the street racing kidnappers, Roger dumps everything to reduce the car's weight leading to one of the kidnappers driving under the tanker truck and becoming a convertible. | |
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Alarm für Cobra 11: At the beginning of the "Die Braut" episode, a drowsy driver crashes his truck in front of Semir's car and he is unable to stop before the impact of the trailer rips off the roof. | |
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In Smokey and the Bandit, Sheriff Buford T. Justice has this happen to him when he can't avoid a truck carrying a concrete I-beam. He continues to drive the roofless police cruiser at high speed across several states for the rest of the movie, in varying states of disassembly. | |
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Happens to Cruella de Vil's car at the end of 101 Dalmatians, while she is chasing the moving van the titular dogs were traveling in. Her car was already a convertible, though the top was up at the time. | |
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This is one of many mishaps that happens to Bond's Renault in A View to a Kill, as seen in the page image. | |
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Slight variation in an episode of Garfield and Friends when Jon drives under a truck and Garfield makes the comment. And to make it worse, the episode closes with rain (though Garfield and Odie have an umbrella to cover themselves). | |
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Averted in the Bugs episode "All Under Control". The villain attempts to drive under a truck, only for the car to come to a complete stop. | |
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Mr. Lahey's car in Trailer Park Boys loses its roof in a Noodle Incident between seasons, chalked up to Mr. Lahey's drunk driving (the roof was actually destroyed during filming of The Movie). The roof of his police cruiser is also torn off after he's reinstated to the police department. | |
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The 1996 movie The Sweeper has this when the main character's Ford Crown Victoria drives under the trailer of a gasoline tanker, prompting an obvious "convertible" remark from him after driving under it. | |
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In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Authority", the Watterson family car gets its hood torn off when Richard drives it under a semi-truck. The same thing happens in "The Name", this time because Gumball's Split Personality Zach cut the brakes. | |
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This happens in the final episode of Perfect Strangers. | |
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Averted in Red 2 when the protagonists are driving a Lotus Exige S with such a low profile they can literally drive sideways under a truck, coming out behind the vehicle that's chasing them. | |
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Variation in X-Men: The Animated Series, when Cyclops pisses off Wolverine. | |
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007 shears the top off a doubledecker bus by going under a low bridge in Live and Let Die. | |
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Defied in BeamNG according to videos like this, as the physics engine doesn't distinguish between roof and body stiffness. | |
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In one episode of Extreme Ghostbusters, the gang is being chased by the metal-eating Jersey Devil, who blasts the roof of Roland's car. Eduardo then makes the comment. | |
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Happens to the girl's car in the music video for Twisted Sister cover of "Leader of the Pack". | |
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In Jurassic Park, a small version of this happens to the Jeep when Muldoon, Sattler, and Malcolm are fleeing from the T. rex and hit a tree limb that has fallen across the road. The Jeep was already a convertible and had the roll bars and roof removed, but the branch still breaks the windshield off and would have decapitated everybody if they didn't duck to avoid it. | |
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It happens in Top Gear with a Citroen sedan driven by The Stig as part of a test on vehicle height in sports cars (it failed). | |
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Doom Patrol (2019): An accident of this nature kills Cliff’s wife and results in him becoming a Brain in a Jar. His daughter is the only survivor. | |
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Episode 6 (second half) of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt has this happen to See-Through by another vehicle. Chuck didn't duck of course. | |
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In The Mummy Returns, the heroes have to hijack a double-decker London bus in order to escape from some of Imhotep's undead minions. It's pretty much inevitable that they'll drive under a low bridge and scrape off the bus's upper deck in the process. | |
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In Durarara!!, Shizuo pulls this off on Horada's car by slicing the top off with a highway sign. | |
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines does this with a hearse, badly damaging the T-X actively trying to cut through the roof in the process. | |
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