historywriter

Dear Knowledgeable Car Folks, I'm writing a novel about 100 years in a house in Los Angeles. Over 100 years, those people drive a lot of cars. I was hoping I could turn to some of you for car questions as I write. Right now, I have to write two cars in 1921-1922. One is driven by an extremely successful woman scriptwriter (the actual Frances Marion, who earned 350,000 or so in 1921!) and another is driven by a starting out woman scriptwriter, who couldn't afford, say, a housekeeper yard/man. What kinds of cars might they drive and how would they shift gears in them? I'm thinking of having writer number 2 buy an electric car because she's tiny and the kick of the starter crank might be too much for her. But she's a flashy girl, very much a wild flapper, so it would have to look like more money than she yet has. Anybody who has details of what these cars might look like, sound like while starting, while driving, the kinds of tiny things that can make them seem real for a reader as we're tooling along talking about, say, Mary Pickford's latest flicker, well, I'd sure appreciate their help. Thanks in advance, Sally Rafowicz