When watching old 50s TV reruns, I notice people nearly always would enter/exit the cars from the nearest side. Was everyone really so lazy then that they would rather slide across the seat (even in T-Birds that always had a shifter in the way) instead of walking around? Or was that merely camera/time expediency, to save film? I could see where the driver might think sliding across the seat from the sidewalk/passenger side would be preferable to walking around into traffic, but would a passenger crossing the street ever enter the drivers side of any vehicle with a floor shift if they didn’t have too?

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA