Hi there,
If you have a look at post 38462 you'll see a picture of the black 1988 4 seater that I've bought recently. If you look at my other posts I may have posted a link to a couple more pictures on my photobucket account (posting from my Wii browser so can't surf around and check the address - sorry). These are all I have I'm afraid because we just haven't had the weather to get out and clean and polish her to take some photos of my own.
I was not really too fussed about colour - but I'm rather pleased with the black - smart, mean.
It sounds like you are buying new - in which case I think you get an easy to use hood with a decent line to it - but I think you end up with smaller side screens at the rear. Mine has a removable hood which has big rear and side plastic windows in the top and large side-screens for the rear but does have quite a bulge (which I don't like so much but the hood will rarely be up so it doesn't really matter. I think the nearly-new models, I guess from 2000-ish until the Roadster version, have the decent squared off, almost "shooting brake" lines with a good amount of glass - I guess they were still lift-off.
You can probably see from all the "I think" and "I guess" that I'm not an expert but I hope it helps a little.
Good luck in your quest.
