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) October). Then on 28 December "Phaeton" took the 12-gun "Hazard" in the Bay of Biscay. The next day, the 44-gun "Anson", Captain Philip Charles Durham, with "Phaeton", retook the 20-gun "Sphinx"-class post ship , which the French had captured almost exactly three years earlier. Out of a crew of 276, including 30 passengers of various descriptions, "Daphne", lost five men killed and several wounded before she surrendered. "Anson" had no casualties. On New Year's Day, 1798, "Phaeton" took "Aventure". On 19 February she took the 18-gun "Légère" in the Channel. On 22 March she participated in damaging the 36-gun frigate