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Please, the advice is needed for my friend from
Lviv, Ukraine. He’s got the early doorless body.

Does anyone have the picture or the drafts of the side curtains for the such body type?

Still searching. This may give some idea or the front & replicate for the back

Thank you!!!

Here is the left side of my Tourabout.

I don’t have side curtains but I have ponchos under the back seat.

I'm game - do you need a friend to snap & unsnap it once inside. OR are some pieces zippered?

Snap and unsnap. Or, rather, Murphy Snap, twist, and untwist on most side curtain points, with a few exceptions for regular type snaps.
I have had a couple cars with side curtains. I love using the side curtains! On the 1915 Studebaker touring car I used to have, I usually left the side curtains up all year.

You can unzip and untwist the fasteners from inside and outside. The zippers have handles on both sides.
And if you flip the center section upward the whole side opens up.

Thank You very much for the detailed pictures!!

If you want to be period correct, no zippers before 1917, they didn’t come into general usage until the mid-1920s, probably only on garments. (More research is indicated)

I recall my grandfather’s comments re/ zippers c. 1930 :
“I don’t trust zippers. I saw a fellow get his necktie caught in one once, and they had to cut it off to get it out.”