Testing the DUMBEST Feature Ever Put In a Car! 

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​@@TFLclassicsIn other words they were getting "cock blocked" 🤣

A road in the back of the truck, most of the 80s, without a seat of any kind never got pulled over for it. I'm pretty sure right in the back of the truck was still legal in the 80s.

​@@mikebelcher5111in Florida you can still do it long as your 18+ and your back is straight along the cab and you are not elevated

@@naturedetectiveminecraft6362 and you're not alive

​@@mikebelcher5111cops in the 1980s didn't care until the safety belt 1990s came along.

@chrishultgren777 still legal though

Same here. And we never put a tailgate down to get in the back. You put your foot on the bumper or climb over the side by stepping on the tire!

Survivor bias.

@@jamesgreen5560to be fair my dads 1993 Nissan pickup was not nearly as tall as any truck nowadays

In the rural areas of Mexico you drink beer and travel sitting on the edge !😅

Exactly. No “seats” never mind seat belts ! Good times, before all those safety regulations…

back when kids were adults

I spent most of my pre 16 years riding in the back of a truck. We could leave high school at noon for lunch so there would be a whole load of guys going down town for lunch. I learned to absorb bumps stand not on a motorcycle but in the back of a truck. Plus as the gate opener on farms you rode on the tailgate. The cab of the truck was like the big table at family dinners.

That's actually still not completely abnormal in much of the US South...

UP HILL! BOTH WAYS!

And that was when we were kids!! Parents didn't have to worry about "child endangerment ". Now if kids aren't strapped in 15 different ways and wrapped in bubble wrap, the parents get arrested and tossed in jail.

In the Midwest we still did that in the 80s and 90s

People that give up freedom for safety deserve and will receive neither- Ben Franklin

@@enz6312 That's because the ones that died can't talk. Survivorship bias is real.

Genius!😂

Mine was a 1978 Subaru wagon that was the same as the Brat. It used the same body and front end you could see where the panels would have been cut out to make the Brat version.

Remember the 80s Toyota pickups? 99 down 99 a mo tough little trucks

Yup. And I believe the upcoming grenadier truck will be subject to it.

I read this in Butthead's voice. xD

Ford is being *wrongfully* sued right now because they put extremely cheap seats in the back of the Made In Turkey Transit Connect to get around the Chicken Tax. So the rear seat loophole has been utilized as recently as 2010.

Kids. Until recently it was normal, especially in rural areas.

You got foam? Lucky! We had bare metal! 😂

We've fallen so far

@@coryernewein The Nanny State was the end of thinking.

@@Torsee critical thinking and personal accountability have become almost as rare as hens teeth for sure.

@@coryernewein Fallen into an idiocracy.

Yeah, and your gen lost a TON of people back then

​@@bldontmatter5319 coough cough tide pods and condom snorting challenge

Yes we would rather ride in the back because the cab was full of cigarette smoke

@bldontmatter5319 no... no we didn't... your generation is just scared of your own shadow.

This +70yr old agrees with these thoughts. He routinely rode in the back of his dads 1930s/40s? Chevy truck, and played with mercury AND asbestos , and lives to thumb his nose at the Nanny State

Of course, a lot of kids were lost when the truck hit a large bump or was involved in an accident.

Yup many days just ridin around in the back as a kid

And a lot of people died or got hurt to stupid stuff back then.

Yup. Makes me wanna break out the lawn darts. I hate the government telling me what I can and can not do. Pussies.

It's funny that you mention the Rumble Seat. My wife and I were on our way to the store yesterday, and happened to see an old model car with one installed. I about lost it when we saw that. My wife had never seen that model of car, and didn't know what a Rumble Seat was. I knew, because I was raised by my grandmother, who told me many stories about "incidents" in that Rumble Seat. I'm 57, so I also grew up in the "rode in the back of a pickup truck" era. One of the wildest ones was when 8 teenagers (including myself), were sat in the back of a pickup truck heading to a Civil War Reenactment up in Pennsylvania.... along with the 8 of us, was a full size canon that was strapped down, and a cooler full of beer that we not only had access to, but raided the entire 3 hour drive up from Baltimore. The canon and the cooler were secured in.... unlike the 8 of us, who were free to move around. I want to say that was 1982, which would have made me 15 at the time. The "legal" drinking age was 18 at that time, and IIRC, I was the oldest of the teenagers in the back of that truck. Everyone else was a year or two younger than I was. But yeah.... 8 drunk teenagers, a canon, and a cooler full of beer packed into the bed of a pickup truck on a road trip. Somehow, we all lived through that insane weekend. Also, there was another 10 cases of beer in the other vehicle that was hauling the other adults of our crew. What a time to be alive....

Same here...our 1st wagon didnt even come with seatbelts. We would stand up in the rear seat all the time. Rode minimikes with no helmets, drank from the hose bib, played football in the street. No kid ever started this "omg i dont feel safe" crap...they woulda been beat up

The chicken tax was explained in the video, too.

They mention that in the video

@@anthonyc1883 good. I was afraid they were ignorant. Didn't want to watch the whole thing right now

It explains the drifting into idiocracy.

​@@AkioWasRightno, smart people could be hurt riding in this too. Don't be silly

@@bldontmatter5319 Your comment only supports the point.

you can definitely tell how many people today would not have survived childhood.

@@bldontmatter5319 maybe you can live in a plastic bubble so the world doesn't hurt you.

We had brains and common sense even as kids back then. Rarely heard of anyone getting hurt riding in the back, it was more like dogs that would fall/jump out.

@@gordocarbo Sink or swim - it's what keeps the gene pool clean.

@@gordocarbo You yourself can have all the sense in the world but if someone T-bones you and you flip you're 100% dead and there won't be anything you can do about it.

Oh please. You feel strong until someone slams into you while youre in the back, and you get ejected 50 feet.

@@SmolPotatowo Okay, but you're creating a specific scenario. Looking at the broader picture, accident rates haven't declined much over the years. If anything, the FA rate is starting to tick upward, which goes against common notions of car safety. This could be explained by a tradeoff. Sure, cars are theoretically safer in an accident because of more laws and crash safety standards, but that likely has lead to drivers to becoming complacent and overconfident in their ability to avoid or survive accidents, resulting in drivers taking more risks, being more careless in general, or just having lesser skills overall. 50 years ago, the sense of danger is what created common sense, making people more careful and responsible drivers. If you wanted to be safe on the road, it was not up to the car or the laws to you keep safe, it was up to the individuals to adhere to a common culture of driver safety.

And couldnt wait to to outside and play...sitting indoors was pure hell for us Almost never saw other kids that werent skinny

That's how my late uncle passed well, but it was off-road and the truck hit a rut and he popped out.

They were, most who lived in mountains/snow had one or an old Jeep for winter.