Here's John trying out the new seat in the DeTour.
John You'd better attach a seat belt to the frame sand saddle so it don't throw you
sand is supposed to be AND need to proof read
Next step is to mount the stirrups to the pedals.
Whoa, Lizzie!
Forget the seat belt and add some buck'in rolls to that slick fork! Stan is it rim-fire rigged? Now maybe a side-saddle passenger seat and cruise the main drag for a date.
Maybe it needs some of those off-center eccentric wheels on it? I saw one at a swap meet about two years ago.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
No bill from the engineering department for this modification. Yeeee Haaaa.
Don't need no bucking rolls if you know how to spur. You're too busy spurring to buck off.
The famous outlaw, Belle Starr, always rode sidesaddle.
I've been working on a little narrative of a neighbor lady who came out to the west in 1908 as a young widow with a year old son and homesteaded on the south slope of the divide where she would have a lot of free pasture for cows. (Contrary to what some believe, not all the land was available for homestead and if the government didn't think it could be farmed it was left for "Desert Claims" and Taylor Grazing land. A lot of it was just "there" and could be pastured without any fees.)
She had been raised in Minneapolis by an old time cowman who taught her to ride and taught her the cow business. Her twin sister married into wealth and society and stayed in the city, she came west after her husband was killed. She rode and roped and ran the ranch pretty much by herself and she always rode sidesaddle. I remember seeing her ride when I was just a wee boy, she would have been 60 ++ and I would have been 7 or 8. She is just about the only person I have ever seen ride sidesaddle. She must have been pretty forward thinking, tho. She bought a new Model T in 1916, took the back off and made a pickup box for it. It was in a shed when I was a kid. She drove it until 1936 when she bought a new 1936 Chevy, drove that until she died in about 1980. The T went to a guy at Terry who left it to his nephew in Plains. ASAIK it is still there.
Evelyn Cameron, the famous photographer, was nearly arrested in Miles City in the 1890's because she rode astride with a split riding skirt. The finally allowed her to walk from the livery stable to her hotel room to change into decent attire. She was told not to come back to Miles City unless she was riding sidesaddle. She was quite a horsewoman, learned to ride to the hounds in England, her brother was Lord Battersea. She's worth a google.
Here is our neighbor's ranch headquarters about 20 years ago.
This is a little of the family stuff in the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in Colo Springs. The cup says my great aunt Margaret (Rick) Irwin was, "Champion Lady Rider of the World, Frontier Day, Cheyenne, Wyo, 1902."
I met her only once, when she was just a nice little old lady.
If you ever find the book, "Prairie" at a garage sale, Stan, I think you will find it good reading. It was largely about the CB Irwin clan who made Cheyenne Frontier Days the center of rodeo at the turn of the Century. Somewhere on the family ranch he buried an early car that was made in Denver, after he wore it out.
Ralph you had said to put in a pair of saddles for seats, but I only had one at the house. If you ever come to Montana I'll make sure I have another there and take you out for a spin. Took the car out for a ride Sunday night and Stan followed behind. Clocked me at about 40mph and I don't think I was at 1/2 the throttle. Right front rim appears to be bent and a few other things need to be done, but we should make it over to Butte on Tuesday or Wednesday next week to run with Montana 500 folks for a leg or two in the touring group. Stan made the comment earlier that they would all be watching our tail light in the distance, but I think until I get some more miles on it, it will be the other way around.
I'm back in the saddle again,
Our where a friend is a friend,
Where you sleep out every night,
And the only law is right,
Back in the saddle again.
Whoopie, Ty Yi Yo, Rocking to and fro,
Back in the saddle again,
Yippe Ty Yi Yea
I'm on my way,
Back in the saddle again!!
Gene Autry & Ray Whitley -- 1940's
Really glad you liked the saddle idea, John. Yours may be a first for a T. Now, if you can make your T do this, you'll be a star:
Actually, we stayed overnight in Livingston, 2 July 2010, and I flagged a guy down the next morning driving a T. How's that for rarity? We have no plans to go that way again, but you never know. Thanks for the offer. I'll demand reins and a seatbelt, however...
Be sure to put in some Dyna-beads. They hide a lot of wheel ills.
rdr
Ricks
You posting reminded me of a car my dad sold to a circus group back in the 1950's. The car was a 1924? touring and the circus act group would move the rear wheels forward and make a BUCKING FORD.
Stan might want to do that to his T. After all he already has the saddle.
PS: I was to young to tell dad to keep the car.
You need an old nail keg to hide the gas tank in and use a corn cob for a gas cap....
It's a work in progress...........
Blew a soft plug and it warmed up a little. You can hear it run here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEr0QtvJsJc
Nother one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo-n77CPKgA
Stan & John,
I have found something to put between your saddles & Model T truck to ride on,but you will need 2 of them.The picture is of the early Moxie horsemobile on a Dort car chassis ? The picture was taken in front of B.F. Sargent's store in New London, New Hampshire.
Its about 6 feet from the saddle to the ground,so @ 40 miles an hour it will be one wild ride.I saw one of the later Moxie cars at Hershey a few years ago.
Scott
I'll bet after about six of those Pickwick Pale Stouts it is an even wilder ride!!!!