What does c/p mean, for a Toyota?

Apr 17, 2021 Last reply: 5 years ago 1 Replies

I'm making a lot of progress fixing my car, so I have time for trivial questions. In the wiring diagram for Toyotas it often distinguishes between convertibles and c/p.


What does c/p mean?


I'm thinking c stands for coupe, but where does that leave p?


OT, do any of you remember the 50's when one design was called a coupe, which was pronounced coo-pay. It turns out with an accent over the e, that's the past participle of a verb meaning to hit, but with no accent, in French, the final e is silent, and the word is pronounced coop. But in the 50's either people didn't know that or coop didn't sound French enough. -- Similar to foyer, pronounced foi-yay. In French it would be fwah-yay, and in English foy-er, but in the 50's they used a combo English-French pronunciation, foi-yay.



For some reason, now in the USA, both words are usually pronounced in straight English.


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No coupays there... In northern New England French Canadiens were low of the social scale so even if it should have been French it was purposefully mangled: go looking for Isle au Haut in Maine and you'd better say aisles ah hot and no something to do with ho's.

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