History Main / InstantConvertible

* ''JamesBond''

** This is one of many mishaps that happens to Bond's Renault in ''{{A View to a Kill}}''.

* In ''SoulEater'' [[TheDragon 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 AxCrazy guy [[LivingWeapon with the ability]] to turn into a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] does that.

* Averted in ''AClockworkOrange''. They're already ''in'' a convertible, and it suffers no damage whatsoever when it goes under a truck.

* In the ''AmericanDad'' 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.

* In one episode of ''ExtremeGhostbusters'', the gang is being chased by the metal-eating JerseyDevil, who blasts the roof of Roland's car. Eduardo then makes the comment.

** 007 shears the top off a doubledecker bus by going under a low bridge in ''{{Live and Let Die}}''.

* Happens to Cruella DeVil's car at the end of ''Disney/OneHundredandOneDalmatians'', while she is chasing the moving van the titular dogs were travelling in.

In some chase scenes, there comes a time when when Mack truck's trailer blocks a driver's path. Sometimes, there isn't enough time to avoid a collision. What does one do in such a situation?

Answer: Duck.

If the car is low enough or the trailer high enough, the majority of the car will pass under it safely, sacrificing only the roof and the windows. The car remains perfectly drivable afterward. The driver may even make a remark such as, "I've always wanted a convertible." Hence, the name of the trope.

As ''{{Mythbusters}}'' has shown 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.

-->'''Wolverine:''' Tell Cyclops I made him a convertable.

* Slight variation in an episode of ''{{Garfield and Friends}}'' when Jon drives under a billboard and Garfield makes the comment.
* Variation in the '90s ''Series/{{X-Men}}'' animated series, when Cyclops pisses off Wolverine.

* The "Smokey" (Jackie Gleason playing Sheriff Buford T. Justice) in ''Smokey and the Bandit'' has this happen to him when he can't avoid a truck carrying a concrete I-beam. He continues to drive the car at high speed across several states for the rest of the movie.

* In one episode of ''ExtremeGhostbusters'', the gang is being chased by the metal-eating Jersey Devil, who blasts the roof of Roland's car. Eduardo then makes the comment.

* It happens to Rosco's cruiser in an episode of ''{{Dukes of Hazzard}}''.

If the car is low enough or the trailer high enough, the majority of the car will pass under it safely, sacrificing only the roof and the windows. The car remains perfectly drivable afterwords. The driver may even make a remark such as, "I've always wanted a convertible." Hence, the name of the trope.

In some chase scenes, there comes a time when when mack truck's trailer blocks a driver's path. Sometimes, there isn't enough time to avoid a collision. What does one do in such a situation?

As MythBusters has shown, this trope is TruthInTelevision, when their tow cable-guided test car kept going until it left the test site and crashed into a ravine.

!!Examples:

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* This is one of many mishaps that happens to Bond's Renault in ''AViewToAKill''.

* In ''TheMummy Returns'' they do this to the second floor of a double decker bus.

* ''{{Terminator}} 3'' does this with a hearse, badly damaging the terminator trying to cut though the roof in the process.
** Terminator 2, when the t-1000, driving a semi, crashes into a demolished bridge, destroying the roof of the truck, the t-1000, being made of liquid metal, is able to reconstruct itself and continue the chase.
* Averted in ''AClockworkOrange''; they're already ''in'' a convertible, and it suffers no damage whatsoever when it goes under a truck.
* JamesBond shears the top off a doubledecker bus by going under a low bridge in ''LiveAndLetDie''.

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* Slight variation in an episode of ''GarfieldAndFriends'' when Jon drives under a billboard and Garfield makes the comment.

-->'''Wolverine:''' "Tell Cyclops I made him a convertable."

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