Topic: Art and cars #16 - Raoul Walsh meets a jackrabbit in a Model T Ford?

[Ray B.]

Nope. To be honest, I believe that the answer is to be found only in Walsh's memoirs, which I've read.
Nevermind, one point will go to the brave who will search it there. It's a good read anyhow. And I'll tally the points when this is done. You'll have to wait for yours until then, but one or two points is no big deal for you.

[Paul Jaray]

Nope. To be honest, I believe that the answer is to be found only in Walsh's memoirs, which I've read.
Nevermind, one point will go to the brave who will search it there. It's a good read anyhow. And I'll tally the points when this is done. You'll have to wait for yours until then, but one or two points is no big deal for you.

I'm in no hurry, but I care of each and every point...there are too many unsolved ones....

[Paul Jaray]

Was this car a well known american one?

[Ray B.]

Yes. I only ask for the make as I don't know more.

[Ray B.]

Paul has made a big step toward identifying this car's make.
Now Walsh, in his book "Each man in his time", states that, would the accident have occurred a year later, he wouldn't have lost his eye because the maker had then introduced a new safety feature...
I think that by finding this feature one may find the make.

[Paul Jaray]

A different type of glass?

[Ray B.]

Correct.

... would the accident have occurred a year later, he wouldn't have lost his eye because the maker had then introduced a new safety feature...
I think that by finding this feature one may find the make.

And we can even find the model...

[Joćo]

I think he had a Stutz,because in 1929 the SV-16 came equipped with a windshield safety glass and hydrostatic brakes.

So it“s a Stutz?

[Ray B.]

Nope. A more common make.
But safety glass it is indeed.

[ImpishGrin]

A Cadillac? They introduced safety glass in 1929 models.

[Ray B.]

Lots of makes seem to have introduced safety glass in 1929.
Much mure common than a Stutz or a Cadillac.

[Paul Jaray]

Still alive?
(it's not a Chevrolet, Chrysler, Ford, Plymouth or Pontiac, AFAIK)

[Ray B.]

Still alive, but your AFAIK is wrong.

[Paul Jaray]

You are right....on december 2, 1927,  Ford introduced Safety glass...

[Ray B.]

So Paul Jaray does it!

It's all a bit old now so I am too lazy to go all through the info I collected then. But walsh writes that Ford had introduced safety glass in the following model year: this proves that the car he rode in was a model T Ford (the closest thing then to a Jeep and the most logical car to use for a shooting on rough terrain)