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classicseats
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Bobby Mac- 13", Wonda-chair- 16"
joolsplus3
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Whenever a grandparent at BRU mentions the 'one carseat' they had for their kid, I just always imagine it's one of those. I say something about brown vinyl and if their kid is that old, they laugh. 
thekatie
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I just went through your Pinterest, sending pictures to my mom. She thinks I had a Bobby Mac, but not with the shield. It was a handmedown from the babysitter who had several children (all born in the 1970s).
Which makes me wonder, did they have recommendations not to use secondhand seats back then? Like now, where you're told with an unknown history you shouldn't use it. Also, were there expiration dates on the older seats?
Which makes me wonder, did they have recommendations not to use secondhand seats back then? Like now, where you're told with an unknown history you shouldn't use it. Also, were there expiration dates on the older seats?
classicseats
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I don't remember hearing about expiration dates or history of seats back then. I'm sure there are members here who know a little bit more about that? The bobby mac had to be used with the shield FF. There was one bobby mac that didn't have a shield, the bobby mac super, but that wasn't released until the early '80's. Many seats had metal frame so plastics degrading wasn't an issue.
thekatie
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Hmm. I'll have to find old pictures - I remember looking at them a while ago and meaning to come here to ask you, actually, and never got around to it. Mom doesn't remember a shield. I wonder if we have it wrong (must find pictures!), or they used the seat wrong. Hmm.
mom of six
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I've been a car seat geek since the mid 80's and I don't remember hearing about expiration dates until I started having my own kids in late 1990's early 2000. I think there was a recommendation out there that car seats should not be used past 10 years but it was one of those things you would know about only if you were a car seat geek.
Back in the 80's someone published a checklist of things to notice on a used car seat but the concept was not as absolute as it is now. In fact they used to sell "universal" replacement buckles and other car seat repair parts at Toys R Us!!!
Back in the 80's someone published a checklist of things to notice on a used car seat but the concept was not as absolute as it is now. In fact they used to sell "universal" replacement buckles and other car seat repair parts at Toys R Us!!!
thekatie
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I asked mom again, and she said it was definitely that Bobby Mac. I said how it should have had a shield and she said it was broken off. There was still a harness (she sounded very huffy as she said "I mean, I strapped you in!"), and she said you could see where the shield should have attached... but apparently with so many kids using it, the seat just got busted up.
Then she said that she had a different seat, a pale colored one, in my dad's car so they didn't have to switch seats around. "Hey, it was an OB/GYN who gave me that one! It was doctor approved!" ((she said that very tongue in cheek, as she and my dad were doctors too, but obviously not super keen on car seats)) I'll have her look through your pins to see if we can find the other seat. I was born in '84 so it could have been made any time before then. I can't find a picture of it though to look myself.
Then she said that she had a different seat, a pale colored one, in my dad's car so they didn't have to switch seats around. "Hey, it was an OB/GYN who gave me that one! It was doctor approved!" ((she said that very tongue in cheek, as she and my dad were doctors too, but obviously not super keen on car seats)) I'll have her look through your pins to see if we can find the other seat. I was born in '84 so it could have been made any time before then. I can't find a picture of it though to look myself.
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