STOOPID RESEARCH as I have possibly mentioned before

[sid]

Why did it have to take me this long to discover that the type of Model T Jack is driving has no driver's door?

The only answer is to put the top down so he can climb in and out.

Which I guess is okay. I'll have to change things in a couple of few handful of spots, but it's easier than making Daniel get out of the auto to let Jack out every damn time. Or making Jack into a contortionist. And not the fun kind.

*pouts* It's not like anybody except me would've known.

*sighs* I need a drink.

Comments

[ivorygates]

No driver's door? What kind is it? Is it a thing where he'd just vault in over the bodywork on the driver's side? Is there YouTube footage of people getting in and out of one?

[sid]

I couldn't find any YouTube footage, sadly. Henry Ford kept costs down any way he could, and one of those ways was not to install a door for the driver! One of the control levers sits to the left of the driver anyway, so it would be difficult to climb past it. So you just pivot out over the doorframe, or make your passenger let you out.

It's a 1915 Model T touring car, with front and back seats, three doors, a collapsible roof and a windshield. No window glass.

In my mind the roof was up, but there's no reason why it can't be down instead...until it rains. Which is the bit I was just about to start writing!

Oh, did you see my last entry? No, wait, it was the one before that (although the last one is well worth a peek!); it has another 1922 snippet to whet your thirst. :-)

[jdjunkie]

Personally, I'd pay good money to see contortionist!Jack ... *g*

[sid]

Daniel might enjoy it, too...ringside seat and all. ;-)

[princessofgeeks]

Facts! They are so inconvenient!

*pets you*

[sid]

The little buggers. *g*

Thank goodness for the edit "find" function. All I had to do was search for 'window' and 'door', and I was able to re-jigger everything as needed. I'd already used it once to search for 'car', since that was not the terminology in use back then, but comes so naturally to me that a few had inevitably snuck in. :-)

[catspaw]

I'd stake good money that *somebody*, *somewhere* would have known this and probably commented on it at length...

[sid]

LOL, very possibly! I was startled to have someone comment elsewhere, "Does Jack know how to drive a Model T? There are three pedals, and none of them is a gas pedal." Then I noticed that their username was something like old_cars, and it suddenly made sense. *g*

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

And yet another reason why I don't write historical. Too much work LOL!

[sid]

I do love the research, but I seem fated to discover facts after the fact, so to speak, lol.