Phaeton body Volkswagen introduced a vehicle with the name Phaeton, which has a typical four-door sedan body style. Phaeton body A phaeton is a style of open automobile without any fixed weather protection, which was popular from the 1900s until the 1930s. It is an automotive equivalent of the horse-drawn fast, lightweight phaeton carriage. A popular style in the USA from the mid–1920s and continuing into the first half of the 1930s was the dual cowl phaeton, with a cowl separating the rear passengers from the driver and front passenger. Phaetons fell from favour when closed cars and convertible body styles became
HMS Phaeton (1883) "Iowa" coming up the straits approaching Victoria (British Columbia) in a dense fog. The July 1898 Navy List listed her commissioned and warrant officers as follows: "Phaeton" was re-commissioned at Esquimalt (Canada) on 10 October 1900, to serve on Pacific Station. In July 1902 she visited Acapulco, and the following month she was at Panama. She paid off on 28 April 1903. This commission was the subject of a book in the 'Log' series, entitled: "HMS Phaeton, Pacific Station, 1900–1903". The March 1901 Navy List listed her commissioned and warrant officers as follows: The "Phaeton" did harbour service at Devonport