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 (1782) 26 March 1828. "Phaeton" was commissioned in March 1782. Within a year she had been paid off. In December 1792 "Phaeton" was commissioned under Sir Andrew Snape Douglas. In March 1793 "Phaeton" captured the 4-gun privateer lugger "Aimable Liberté". Then on 14 April "Phaeton" sighted the French privateer "Général Dumourier" (or" Général Du Mourier"), of twenty-two 6-pounder guns and 196 men, and her Spanish prize, the "St Jago", 140 leagues to the west of Cape Finisterre. "Phaeton" was part of Admiral John Gell's squadron and the entire squadron set off in pursuit, but it was "Phaeton" that made the actual