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[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Those child carseats are something.

How did we ever survive back then?

Probably by a wing and a prayer as the saying goes, plus a nagging mom who told dad to take it easy

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Probably by a wing and a prayer as the saying goes, plus a nagging mom who told dad to take it easy

We had mom's right arm to hold us back in a crash. Way better than any airbag thingy.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Platapus

We had mom's right arm to hold us back in a crash. Way better than any airbag thingy.

Most definitely

[Sailor Steve]

Back in days when most people owned sedans and all sedans had a big shelf behind the rear seats covering the trunk, on long trips I would sometimes sleep up on that shelf (I was six or so). When I was nine my dad had a '58 Corvette. We went for a drive one day with my dad and his friend in the seats and myself and the friend's two boys sitting up on the rear deck with our feet behind the seats, holding onto the seatbacks so we wouldn't fall out. Of course there were the family outings with parents in the bench seat in the pickup truck and the kids all piled in the bed, occasionally standing up with arms on the roof of the cab.

Yes, we survived. Well, most of us, anyway.