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If the car is low enough and/or the trailer high enough, most of the car will pass under it safely. Except 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.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Soul Eater]]'' [[The Dragon|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 [[Equippable Ally|with the ability]] to turn into a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]] does that.
* In ''[[Durarara!!]]'', Shizuo pulls this off on {{spoiler|Horada}}'s car by slicing the top off with a highway sign.
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** ''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.
*** Reconstruct? It ''ducked''.
**** Both. The T-1000 morphed down into the cab to dodge the impact; the actor leaned over to dodge the expense of another costly special effect.
** ''[[Terminator]] 3'' does this with a hearse, badly damaging the terminator trying to cut though the roof in the process.
* Averted in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. They're already ''in'' a convertible, and it suffers no damage whatsoever when it goes under a truck.
* 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.
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* Slight variation in an episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' when Jon drives under a billboard and Garfield makes the comment.
* Variation in the '90s ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'' animated series, when Cyclops pisses off [[Wolverine]].
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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.
* 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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