Other Passions ?

[Timothy]

No child safety seats in cars!!  Hell, I used to lay up on the back dash and make faces at the cars behind us on the road.  No seat belts, either.  STEEL dashboards in cars, too.  Of course, everybody drove a car the size of a cruise ship, so there was something around you to crumple when you had an accident.

Oh yeah, TOY GUNS back, then, too.  And if I misbehaved I got my ass whupped!!  (Well, my sisters did.......I was perfect in every way......that's my story and I'm stickin to it)  Sure as hell couldn't get by with THAT today.

Safety Seats?  How 'bout no seat belts in the '62 Falcon!  I still have an impression in my chest from my mom smacking me with a clothesline when she had to stop quick....Sleeping in the back deck half way from MI to Minneapolis, sitting in the back of the '68 Bel Air wagon all the way to New Mexico.....peeing into a pop bottle!  My dad was a Greyhound driver with a bladder that held at least five gallons.....  We drove from Grand Rapids to St. Louis without stopping for anything but gas where my two brothers and I whizzed all over that Great Arch at 3:00 am....don't know where my sisters went.....

[tt11758]

Safety Seats?  How 'bout no seat belts in the '62 Falcon!  I still have an impression in my chest from my mom smacking me with a clothesline when she had to stop quick....Sleeping in the back deck half way from MI to Minneapolis, sitting in the back of the '68 Bel Air wagon all the way to New Mexico.....peeing into a pop bottle!  My dad was a Greyhound driver with a bladder that held at least five gallons.....  We drove from Grand Rapids to St. Louis without stopping for anything but gas where my two brothers and I whizzed all over that Great Arch at 3:00 am....don't know where my sisters went.....

I remember my dad test driving (called "trying it out" back then) a used 1955 Nash Ambassador Super.  Driving down the 4-lane mainstreet in my hometown when he grabbed the knob that he THOUGHT slid the seat further back, and the seat back laid down into the backseat.  The look on his face was priceless.  He did end up buying that car, though.  God that thing was HUGE!!!   LOL

[metamurph]

When I was first born my dad had a Triumph TR-3 and my "babyseat" was the bassinet in the "backseat" and we toured from Michigan all through the NE.  Maybe that explains a bit of my carefree nature...then there was the time I was testing out the new shock oil I put in the front forks of my motorcycle.  Went ripping down the street in my shorts and of course no helmet, dive on the brakes and it was great, I turn around go flying back to the end of the cul-de-sac and miss shoot the entry to the driveway by an a couple inches, hit the curb and get launched into space at a fair rate of speed...someone I don't even get a scratch...that was a day of providence and my future mother-in-law later would lay-down the one marriage rule: sell the motorcycle....every spring I pine a bit when I hear the whine but that was also probably one of the smartest things I ever did.

[twyacht]

I had an old Erector Set full of small washers,bolts etc,.. could have swallowed them! BUT I built a battery operated T Crane to assist my Army Men at the Guns of Navarone set I had all over my room.

(The snipers had em' all pinned down)

My 1960 Chrysler New Yorker didn't need a child seat. It was the "crumpler"  zone.  Power windows were strong enough to break fingers,... ah,.. the good ol' days...

[Pathfinder]

I remember my dad test driving (called "trying it out" back then) a used 1955 Nash Ambassador Super.  Driving down the 4-lane mainstreet in my hometown when he grabbed the knob that he THOUGHT slid the seat further back, and the seat back laid down into the backseat.  The look on his face was priceless.  He did end up buying that car, though.  God that thing was HUGE!!!   LOL

Naw, son, huge was my Dad's 1960 Ford Country Squire 9-passenger station wagon we toured the west in. My Dad was frugal in some ways, insisted on the smallest engine Ford would allow in the beast, I think a 260cuin V-8. Think about that for a second - that engine in 9-passenger '60 Ford wagon with six people and luggage. Yup, going up passes through Rockies in CO we had semi's honking at us to get going' - and Dad had it floored in low gear too!

I think in that one the rear seat faced backwards. The '64 wagon we got had 2 inward-facing rear seats along the sides.

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[tt11758]

Naw, son, huge was my Dad's 1960 Ford Country Squire 9-passenger station wagon we toured the west in. My Dad was frugal in some ways, insisted on the smallest engine Ford would allow in the beast, I think a 260cuin V-8. Think about that for a second - that engine in 9-passenger '60 Ford wagon with six people and luggage. Yup, going up passes through Rockies in CO we had semi's honking at us to get going' - and Dad had it floored in low gear too!

I think in that one the rear seat faced backwards. The '64 wagon we got had 2 inward-facing rear seats along the sides.

You are correct, sir.  THe rearmost seat DID face backward.  I remember that because my uncle had one and my cousin and I would sit back there and wave (with one finger) at the people be hind us until they started to get pissed off and honk their horns.  Good times!!  lol