Testing the DUMBEST Feature Ever Put In a Car!

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( www.alltfl.com/ ) Check out our new spot to find ALL our content, from news to videos and our podcasts! No one can argue the 1979 Subaru Brat is anything but quirky, but can you actually use its signature feature on modern roads? Well, it depends...Kase and Tommy cover the details in this comprehensive review!
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00:00-01:28 Intro
01:28-04:30 Strapping In
04:30-05:39 First Impressions
05:39-08:23 Why Rear Seats?
08:23-09:46 Legality
09:46-13:50 Pros and Cons
13:50-15:15 How Cool We Look
15:15-22:56 McDonald's
22:56-25:24 Highway Driving
25:24-29:16 Off-Road Comfort
29:16-32:44 Off-Road Crawling
32:44-39:00 Mudding
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@lawdog516 Месяц назад

I laughed through the complete video, GREAT job guys !!

@TFLclassics Месяц назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@1969chgoodwin Месяц назад

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

@kdowz934 Месяц назад

My dad was a Subaru tech since 1980. I rode in the back of a Brat many times as a kid. Very fond memories.

@matthewj2492 Месяц назад

Growing up in the sixties, it was normal for people to ride in the back of the truck. My whole little league team was fit in the back of the pickup to go get ice cream after a game.

@jesusj7578 Месяц назад

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

@forgetittube5882 Месяц назад

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

@michaelburbank2276 Месяц назад

back when kids were adults

@57WillysCJ Месяц назад

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.

@unconventionalideas5683 27 дней назад

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

@bilbojenkins5276 Месяц назад

Best friend in HS took a set of these and threw them in the back of his 80's Toyota pickup. Cops would stop of regularly to ask, 'Is that legal??,' and it was! Rode in the back for a 4 hour drive down the highway and it was the most miserable car ride of my life. I didn't know you could get sunburned while being so cold at the exact same time....

@mikebelcher5111 Месяц назад

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.

@naturedetectiveminecraft6362 Месяц назад

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

@EpictheEpicest Месяц назад

@@naturedetectiveminecraft6362 and you're not alive

@chrishultgren777 Месяц назад

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

@mikebelcher5111 Месяц назад

@chrishultgren777 still legal though

@1guyin10 Месяц назад

It was the 70's. We rode in the bed of pickups all the time. Dad kept a wooden bench in the bed for us to sit on. The Brat seemed like an upgrade verses just sitting on the floor.

@jamesgreen5560 Месяц назад

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!

@Tobymt1925 Месяц назад

Im 55, we rode in the back of pickup trucks, back dash of cars, back of station wagons..... no seat belts... love your videos especially the Model T ones since I have one.

@RickR69 Месяц назад

UP HILL! BOTH WAYS!

@enz6312 Месяц назад

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.

@jakecease Месяц назад

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

@clayton7825 Месяц назад

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

@EdgeRatedR007 Месяц назад

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

@lawrencefine5020 Месяц назад

We grew up riding in the back of pickup truck beds. No seats, no seatbelt let alone a three point harness. We just sat on the wheel well. Yes, we were stupid, yes we weren't thinking of safety and yes we had fun. And yes, we were lucky we never got thrown out of these old pickup truck beds and died. Safety was always last in the 70's. Fun video

@thomward2902 Месяц назад

My mom had a '79 BRAT when I was a kid. My friends and I loved riding in the back. Many trips were spent back there.

@pmarr98 Месяц назад

This is hilarious video. A 79 Subaru Brat was my first car and I had people in the back all through high school until upgraded to a 83 cj7 which probably wasn’t much safer

@dylanfgarrison Месяц назад

In the early 80s, my mom‘s boyfriend had one of these. I recall riding around town by myself in the back of that thing. I was around four years old and I absolutely loved it. Safe no. Fun… yes!

@XinmingChen Месяц назад

I’m from China and I vividly remember in the late 90s our elementary school put us 30 kids at the bed of a huge cargo truck for a field trip. It was all fun and normal back then. It would be a liability nightmare today.

@Shockedbywater Месяц назад

13:18 'We look like kids strapped into a shopping cart' LMAO what a great line and so accurate.

@aaroncostello8812 Месяц назад

These seats were put into the back of Brats to get around the 25% 'Chicken Tax' on imported light trucks. The seats made the Brat a passenger vehicle instead of a light truck and not subject to the tax. These seats were usually removed at the dealership before rhe vehicle was sold. This tax still exists today.

@dipren443 Месяц назад

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

@valiantviktor Месяц назад

I read this in Butthead's voice. xD

@OhPhuckYou 20 часов назад

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.

@mb34928 Месяц назад

This was our families only transportation in 1979-81. It was my mom and 3 kids in Maine. Yup Maine! It was so cold one winter that we had to put a shop light with a 100 watt bulb under the car so the oil was warm enough to start the car. I was the eldest child at home so I got to sit in the front. I actually learned to drive stick in that car. I loved that car, there are so many great memories!!!

Месяц назад

We weren't so obsessed with safety back then. We sat in the back of trucks all the time. Vans as well, sat on the floor on foam.

@-Jethro- Месяц назад

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

@coryernewein Месяц назад

We've fallen so far

@Torsee Месяц назад

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

@coryernewein Месяц назад

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

@Jr210100 Месяц назад

@@coryernewein Fallen into an idiocracy.

@carlov.3017 Месяц назад

This episode is hysterical and Alex is the man. The screams, the awkwardness, the pointing & laughing, too funny! Looking forward to the next episode. Perhaps car spotting from the rear seats of a BRAT?

@Lyallthetime Месяц назад

Alex having the time of his life, trying to freak out or embarrass the guys 🤣

@LebronPhoto1 Месяц назад

Having seats and seat belts was a step up in safety from just piling into the back of a pickup truck. Also, if you were a kid, that was probably a fun experience.

@Hamilton-bm4qj Месяц назад

Ahh these guys are so precious . Riding in the back of pickups was quite common before the days of the quad-extendo cab trucks that are so common now. I had to ride in the back of an old ford range w my brother through the Appalachian mountains in the rain.

@mack_titan Месяц назад

I wish they bring back small economical pickups like this....

@gordocarbo Месяц назад

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

@IronmanV5 Месяц назад

"Who would you talk into riding into these seats?" "Bro, hold my beer"🍺

@cageordie Месяц назад

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

@TEAMERICA96 9 дней назад

If I remember correctly, the Suzuki Sidekick was another vehicle affected by the Chicken Tax. It had to be "imported" WITH back seats. (possibly for the same reason as the BRAT. But there was a location in the US that would remove the seats and ship them back to the factory to be used again. Then the Car was shipped to the Dealers. There was no requirement for the car to be "SOLD" with the seats installed.

@xlerb2286 Месяц назад

A buddy gave a couple friends a ride home from school one weekend. He had a BRAT and I lost the coin toss and got the back seat. That was a 400 mile round trip but I only had the back one way, the other friend got it on the way back. He had a topper on it so I didn't have the trouble with the wind and dirt. But you had to sit all hunched over so it sure wasn't a fun trip.

@lesliefranklin1870 Месяц назад

Kids used to ride in the back of pickup trucks all the time, without seats. This was a big upgrade at the time. It was also useful for backing into a space at a drive-in movie theater.

@lesliefranklin1870 Месяц назад

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

@parkerfoxhoven7550 Месяц назад

I’m half way through this video and I’m convinced you should keep the Brat forever and make a weekly video just like this. By far the funniest video I’ve watched in a long, long time. This is so great!

@weegeemike Месяц назад

This me reminds me of my dad's pickup bed story he loves to tell. When he was a kid he had to travel from LA to Lake Havasu, AZ in the back of a '65 Dodge pickup because that was the only vehicle his parents had at the time and since he was the older brother he had to endure 100F Temps and the baking sun for hours and hours...he saw the lord that day 😂😂

@Tully3674 Месяц назад

Funny video. Next want to see Nathan and Andre in the back seats while Roman and Mr. Truck go up the Ike.

@sharondyott6510 29 дней назад

It gave flashbacks to my childhood. We rode in the back of anything in the sixties, seventies and eighties. My friend had a Brat he had a custom cap made for it . We would sit in back as children we thought it was the coolest thing 😂. When I got my first vehicle it was a 79 Datsun pickup . I put a cap on it and then put some van seats in the back. We thought we were so smart and I also put cup holders in . I don't think cup holders were put in vehicles until the nineties. You had to be a tough kid when you grew up in the sixties seventies and eighties. 😂

@bradfaubion3699 Месяц назад

That Subaru is rhino guard then painted? That’s cool. It looks good. That model Brat the Gen 1 also had two canopy options you could get. A high top and a low top. Both versions were to accommodate a high or low roll bar if it was equipped in the vehicle. This car shown is a low top roll bar. With a high roll bar you can sit rain free under the canopy, and would have windows like a typical canopy for air flow. And for no reason you could get a front bumper with a winch or snow blow attachment.

@WildhurstLodge Месяц назад

You need some yellow helmets, and on the back paint KC, so your heads look like off road lights!!😂

@dr.burtgummerfan439 День назад

Genius!😂

@chriscon8463 Месяц назад

Hilarious video, guys! I remember seeing these Brats around back in the day; I never saw anyone actually ride in the back of one. It’s really tiny back there & I had no idea how little room there actually is!

@jeffreylines1535 Месяц назад

You have to transport yourself back to the 70s when riding in the back of the pickup was a common thing. The least safe was probalby the teanagers driving with the bed full of friends heading to a drive in or the lake. People didn't see safety the same back then, we were not as worried about it. I remember when it wasn't a law to wear a seatbelt at all, people resisted when the law was passed.

@Cherokeelion Месяц назад

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

@bldontmatter5319 Месяц назад

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

@wolfshanze5980 Месяц назад

As a Gen-Xer, we drank from water hoses, played on steel playground equipment on asphalt playgrounds, rode our bikes without helmets and jumped on planks of wood propped up on bricks... and YES, we LOVED riding in the back of trucks (usually without seats)... as to the BRAT itself, rode in it, didn't bother with the lap belts, because most kids would ride without seats to begin with. In the 70s and 80s, kids would PREFER to ride in the back of a truck then in an stuffy cab. Somehow... we're still alive today!

@bldontmatter5319 Месяц назад

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

@GeorgiaRidgerunner Месяц назад

@@bldontmatter5319 coough cough tide pods and condom snorting challenge

@burtronomaniac Месяц назад

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

@wolfshanze5980 Месяц назад

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

@harriettanthony7352 Месяц назад

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

@fantomtuba Месяц назад

I'd love TFL to make a video of calling and talking to their insurance provider, asking if it's OK to ride in the back and the insurance companies' response.

@7728abbott Месяц назад

Great work together, guys! Excellent content, great laughs! Brats are cool!

@speedbird3955 Месяц назад

I own a Brat and people love it. Men, women, girls, boys will wave and smile, it generates a lot of positive energy and comments. Some people don't even know what it is but others will tell me about a Brat memory from their past and always with a big smile on their face. I don't have the seats though.........

@LukeEdward Месяц назад

Considering the title, I thought Nathan would be driving! . . . And the 26:00 comes along and the title rings true. . . Kidding, man!

@alexgavinchuk5555 12 дней назад

When you consider we were all riding in the back of the truck anyway back then, the seats and lap belt were a huge safety upgrade. It finally became against the law for regular passengers to ride loose in the back of the truck on February 1st, 2000 in my area.

@impgt67 Месяц назад

Hi guys, David here from Tasmania, Australia. Great video, fun all the way. How ironic is it that 2 of the ads shown through the video were for new Suburu SUV's. A neighbour 2 doors down from me still has, and drives regularly, one of these utes. (thats what they are called downunder) Here in Australia they were marketed as the "Brumby". A pretty rare car these days, yet when we first moved to Tasmania in 2007, there was 4 of them in the town I live in.

@jdfleetguy28 Месяц назад

Love these fun videos! Great job guys! Absolutely a fun and hilarious video, one of your all time best! Makes for fun upbeat start to the weekend seeing these fun videos on a Saturday morning. Thanks guys!

@KRangasan Месяц назад

AMAZING video gents!!! I loved it, especially cause as a young kid I used to ride in my Aunties Brat, in those same seats here in hawai'i

@SHUB281 Месяц назад

Love seeing you youngins bringing back the memories of my youth !

@user-cs1ld9hn2k 3 дня назад

You guys are basically the next generation of car talk, i love it.

@JF-lt5zc Месяц назад

This is the best TFL anything video in years. No sponsorship plugs, no being intentionally nice about cars that you feel otherwise about, etc. Just good wholsome fun.

@jensalan Месяц назад

I would love it if Tommy and Case would do more of the bigger videos. These two are much more fun to watch and you can tell they research everything before recording. Roman and Nathan are getting increasingly harder to watch. And more often than not, they just start complaining about things and I often see them making more mistakes.

@user-uw4ch8qr5e Месяц назад

Great fun video! Tommy and Case provide hilarious commentary. Loved it.

@scubatrucker6806 Месяц назад

I remembered riding in the back of my dad's truck without seats and later on he bolted a bench seat in the bed.❤❤❤ good times and memories. This episode is funny😂😂😂

@haweater1555 Месяц назад

There was an optional wind fairing on the roof available to make passengers more comfortable. Still no rollover protection.

@99unclebob Месяц назад

this is the best you guys have produced with the people that count most and the whole video was shits and giggles buzzing around in the back of Subaru Brat, my neighbour had i think it was the 3rd or 4th one sold in Manitoba and we went camping in it and his younger brother and i rode in those seats almost 2 hours to the lake camp ground at 70 mph and people were waving at us and smiling away probably thinking we were nuts, then a Ford F100 passed us with half a dozen teenagers in the box drinking and smoking weed hollering at us and laughing, it was a good weekend ,camping no rain and they just fogged the campgrounds so there wasn't too many mosquitos, good memories and good times , Nathan driving put it to its limits very quickly 😂

@48Boxer Месяц назад

I'm 48 and probably spent more time in the bed of a truck, on a package shelf or in the rear hatch than I did in an actual seat before I got my license

@gordocarbo Месяц назад

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

@jakebooker3040 Месяц назад

Nice video, I remember spending many hours in the back of a Brat in high school.

@Trance88 Месяц назад

I love this little thing. My parents really wanted one back in the early 80's. From what my mom said they settled on a brand new 1982 2WD Subaru GL wagon. It unfortunately got repoed a few months after they got it when my dad was between jobs and they missed ONE payment!

@MrRedtaco11 Месяц назад

We did this in the early 90s as kids. It was in a bed, no straps, just sitting there holding on. It was so much fun. It’s not bad Tommy. Lol

@tmill2001 Месяц назад

In the 1980s most of us didnt have the luxury of seats in the back of trucks! You loved riding with dogs in the back!! LoL

@Todd_S Месяц назад

Case and Tommy are a great duo. I love these adventures and their conversation.

@wafive Месяц назад

These were sold as a "Brumby" in Australia, we did not get the rear seats. They had a reputation as being a very tough little car.

@gordocarbo Месяц назад

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

@malakai713 Месяц назад

great channel, may the algorithm gods bless you guys :)

@JamesAllmond Месяц назад

really? I'm in my 60's. We used to ride standing in the back of old pickups (with an FBI agent driving no less), we survived....and that with seats is way safer...safer is relative... You've never seen a Rumble Seat? Now THAT was dangerous. Uh, let me introduce you to my sidecar... 😎

@MP-qn1jw Месяц назад

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

@IggyStardust1967 8 дней назад

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....

@scottcaldwell8356 Месяц назад

I was about 11 when my day bought a new 83 brat . I loved it in the summer. Winter sucked even with the topper on and rear sliding window open for heat

@DuneJeeper Месяц назад

Loved watching y’all have so much fun with this one 🥤 😎 😎 🥤

@g-mang-man7924 Месяц назад

A friend at high school had a Brat. I rode in the back many times. I have also ridden in the back of many pickups over my years too. All of that was destroyed by a Ford Courier and a kid named Alan Cole. He drove his little truck filled with high schoolers down Patuxent Road in Maryland and missed a corner and killed several kids. Maryland passed a law that no one could ever ride in a pickup bed ever again. It was called the Alan B. Cole law.

@a2jettagli Месяц назад

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

@Mike-01234 Месяц назад

Growing up in the 70s and 80's we rode in the back of pickup trucks all the time. I remember going on camping trips from Southern California to Yellowstone riding in the back of a 72 Ford F-100 pickup all the way there laying down looking up at the stars on a bed roll and sleeping bag for a pillow. The truck was only a single cab.

@ayrproductions Месяц назад

They sold these utes as the Brumby in Australia. And they only put those seats in the back for the US market. Riding in the back of utes was pretty popular here many years ago. My dad spent some time growing up riding in the back of his neighbour’s FE Holden ute which had a canopy on it (you referred to a canopy as a “topper” in this video) whenever my grandfather borrowed it to travel to Melbourne from the Victorian Goldfields, and I spent part of my childhood riding in the back of my dad’s Mazda B1800, and my daughter did spend part of her childhood riding in the back of my Ford XG Falcon ute, then my Ford BA Falcon ute in paddocks. It’s illegal to have anyone ride in the back of utes anywhere in Australia these days though. Also, that ute looks like it’s been painted in Upol Raptor, the worst thing you could paint any car with that isn’t used for hardcore off-roading.

@mikeshumaker7952 Месяц назад

I'm 38 now... learned how to drive stick in one of these when I was 12.. 1st to the tip of the drive way... reverse back the way I came... love it

@dallinn9164 Месяц назад

Here in Australia, it's called the Subaru Brumby. They don't put the seats in the back, but they put the little pegs for the hold-down straps on a tonneau cover lining the edge of the tray.

@seanfritz1355 Месяц назад

We loved the BRAT. My Dad had one and absolutely had a blast in the jump seats. But like you said they where removed and lost to time. But while they where there they where fun. And my brother even put speakers in the side of the bed. You just have to be open to the experience. And look at all the fun you can really have.

@simontemplar8682 Месяц назад

Believe it or not ' Subaru Brats were very popular during the late seventies. The back seats had 2 grab handles each, with just a lap belt. Check out the Subi commercial with the Brat on the Beach ... they were so much fun!

@robertpettus6037 Месяц назад

I'm 34 and I have awesome memories of my older brother and I riding in those jump seats while my dad drove.

@AJSparacio413 15 дней назад

Great video guys! I wish Subaru with come out with a newer version of the Brat. What a cool vehicle! It was a great to bring to the beach!

@peterbutlien1335 Месяц назад

One of your best videos. I see a series coming - "performing various tasks in rear of a Brat."

@JaxonRamblers Месяц назад

I remember those trucks and thinking it was strange to have seats in the bed. But don't remember seeing all that harness stuff on any of them. I grew up in the era when if you were a kid and your dad drove a pickup, you bet your butt you'd be sitting in the bed whenever we went anywhere. We loved it. We went down the highway 75-80 mph with the wind in our hair on short and long trips. Just never stand up!

@thomasbenefield3527 Месяц назад

As a North Georgia man who grew up in upas a kid in the 80s, I rode in the back of trucks all the time! My favorite was the seats in my dad’s BRAT!

@Wezi427 Месяц назад

Kids strapped to the back of a shopping cart😂😂😂 I almost choked on my lunch.

@BrianPorter2Bs3Cs Месяц назад

Rode in the back of a brat everyday to high school in mid 80s... great memories

@glissemaster Месяц назад

GenX here. I remember riding in the back of my dad's pickup truck down the 101 Freeway in the Bay Area in the 70s or early 80s. I think it was legal until seatbelt laws came in the mid-80s. Even in the 90s is was common to ride in the back of a truck -- just lay down so you don't get caught. I had friends who had Brats and have sat in the back many times -- including during a snowstorm.

@RodShopDodgeColt Месяц назад

I remember my parents buying our station wagon back in the day and there was a Brat in the showroom. We were playing in it and we were pretending that the jump seats were the gunner seats of the Millennium Falcon.

@user-mk5xm9zh7n 18 дней назад

I graduated HS in '79. That was my dream car. Never had one, never rode in one, would LOVE to own one.

@beeyesincalifornia1727 16 дней назад

Ah, the memories. I had a 78 and a 79 Brat. The motors are durable, if you catch a CV joint before it goes out they're rebuildable, that's the clicking from the front end. There aren't any aftermarket rims for that year really so you have to get creative for terrain tires. The roll bar in that looked nothing like the roll bar in mine as it went above the level of the cab to a point that I could sit back there comfortably with the headrest set in its highest position which would also extend above the level of the cab. I also had the topper as well. When you looked under the front end I noticed that it is missing the skid plate which made those things work like a big ski over mud holes when going fast enough. Unfortunately I lost all of my Subaru collection with the 2003 Cedar Fire in San Diego county Southern California. They're an incredibly easy to work on vehicle. I had more than once going around corners and spinning a 360 in those on pavement but they never flipped, not a really top heavy vehicle. They ran on muddy fire roads without issue also. I could tell some stories but I won't. Fun times.

@nlpnt Месяц назад

Nissan and Toyota didn't have US assembly in the '70s, the workaround they used was that the Chicken Tax only applied to completed vehicles (note the Type 2 VW is unibody) so they imported their trucks as cab-and-chassis and the beds flatpacked separately in bulk, put the beds together and mounted them at dockside facilities.

@efranklin85 Месяц назад

So when is there going to be a TFL show on one of the big networks. I’ve been following you guys since 2013 and I’m starting to get Top Gear vibes. It’s awesome! 👏🏼

@darrellmellott6096 Месяц назад

My buddy bought one of those when I was a boy (50 years ago) when he had a contract with Canada Post to deliver mail to the Rural Routes. It was cheap, didn't burn a lot of gas and had all wheel drive. There wasn't much else at that time that ticked all those boxes.

@aurorathekitty7854 13 дней назад

Born in 83 and riding in the back of truck's was very common. I remember my brother's and sisters and i all piling in the back of my dad's truck to go to the park or store. We didn't have seats or seatbelts back there

@diegosilang4823 Месяц назад

When I was a kid, I was standing at the back of a pickup truck in motion when I fell down to road and received some stitches to my head.

@kellymcdermott2546 11 дней назад

My father had 3 of these. The New Zealand spec did not have the backseats. They were a great farm runabout and good for carting dogs or doing fence maintenance or other light duty jobs. Being so light they didn't make pasture damage the way a tractor did.

@chriscordray8572 Месяц назад

We use to put a bunch of friends in the back of our trucks and hit all the bumps along the beach in south texas. Throwing a few out sometimes cause they would sit in the bed rails. No one was ever really hurt cause we never went that fast down the beach. My friend had a Subaru Brat and I has a Ford Courier. We would run them pretty hard down the beach when playing around. Of course without rear passengers.

@dannykrauskopf7404 Месяц назад

FN Awesome Episode!!! Very Cool 😁

@ShookieJay 14 дней назад

Man I haven't seen Nathan in a video for a long time... I almost forgot about him haha 😅 Good to see ya Nate!

@donmoore7785 14 дней назад

I had the exact same one - '79 with the painted white wheels (that promptly rusted). College graduation present from my parents. I scared the devil out of my brother and his GF, who rode in the back in the seats ONCE. The car went through tires in 8k miles (belts came through), so I dumped it. I believe it was in fact a terrifying ride at higher speeds, on curves.

@elizabethhopkins3826 Месяц назад

Nicely done! It brought back memories of being in the bed of my father's 1969 Ford Truck with pine needles flying up in my face which was covered in sap!! LOL

@cabiv545 Месяц назад

When are you going to get that vintage with High and Low range - some years had it.

@Improvisebydesign Месяц назад

Growing up in the 80s and early 90s we could still ride in the back of trucks. Those days were awesome!

@michaelholden6096 Месяц назад

We still do here in the mountains everyone does it kids love it. Go to the local lakes and almost every pickup has a whole family in there.

@ryurc3033 Месяц назад

I was 11 or 12 and we went on a 4 hour road trip. Me and my best friend rode in the back of the truck the entire way to the campground. It was awesome.

@arrdubu Месяц назад

Reminds me of the 90s when us kids would ride in the back of my friend's dad's Datsun pickup. No seatbelts let alone seats. I remember one time the brakes went out and we were way up a mountain. We had plans on how to bail if things went awry, but luckily there was enough snow on the side to use for corner braking along with the parking brake that we made it down safely.

@airwess3369 Месяц назад

Seats are small because that's where us kids sat. In the back of the truck bed. Our Seats in the Chevy was the wheel well hump. And whenever Dad would punch the gas or brakes and we went flying the adults inside laughed. Parents barely parented and we grew up fine and well adjusted. Nowadays kids are coddled and parents thrown in jail for taking their eyes off their kids for 1 second and kids are absolutely out of control.

@johnwarren9993 Месяц назад

I grew up in the 70's, we used to love riding in the back of pick-ups. I especially loved it when it got bouncy in the back. It felt like one of the rides at the fair.😂

@donreid6399 26 дней назад

A buddy of mine had one back when I was a teenager, and we had a blast riding around in it. At that time, you'd often see pickups driving around with all the kids riding in the bed, so having the seats in the Brat was considered a safety feature!

@terryintrieri1145 Месяц назад

I'm not sure if they all had it, but in the 80s you could adjust suspension ride height front and back, about an inch, with a compression fitting. Do you know if yours has this.

@LaughingCrowStudio 11 дней назад

My car is an 86 subaru sedan, we put some light truck tyres on it and drove it places I really shouldn't tell my Mom we went to- through drainage culverts under freeways, 2 miles high centered in reverse in a cow pasture, on a road 1000 feet sheer drop above a glacier on a road that hadn't been maintained since the 60s, and so forth. Subarus are great vehicles that will get you more places than you think they could go. :D

@bradleysargent9803 Месяц назад

Just watch the show "My Name is Earl". Great Patriotic Brat and neat how their kids rode in the back when it was raining. Great show :)

@robwalker4548 Месяц назад

Until i graduated in 1975 I regularly rode in the back of a pickup. Even use to use to hold on to the tail gate chain to ski behind on Oklahoma dirt roads and I am still alive.