3 across circa 1978

rodentranger · Nov 21, 2008

in a VW rabbit. I found this pic when I was making DH a scrapbook.
My DH is the baby in the middle, brother (driver's side) is ~4-5 yo, sister (passenger side) is ~2-3 yo.

LISmama810 · Nov 21, 2008

Wow!

Part of me wants to cringe, but that is SO much better than what most people did back then. That's actually very impressive. :thumbsup:

joolsplus3 · Nov 21, 2008

It's a brown vinyl extravaganza!

Seriously, that's way cool! :thumbsup:

bobandjess99 · Nov 21, 2008

Wow! Is that a brown vinyl wall in front of the girls face? LOL!
According to my mom, "noone" used carseats back then, LOL!!! I'll have to show her this pic......

christineka · Nov 21, 2008

Wow! I was born in '78 and was out of car seats by 18 months of age. I think at age 2 or so my mom got me a backless booster that I used sometimes. It was ditched sometime around age 3 or 4.

rodentranger · Nov 21, 2008

bobandjess99 said:
Wow! Is that a brown vinyl wall in front of the girls face? LOL!
According to my mom, "noone" used carseats back then, LOL!!! I'll have to show her this pic......

Why yes it is a brown vinyl wall-complete with 1 inch foam padding! LOL

christineka said:
Wow! I was born in '78 and was out of car seats by 18 months of age. I think at age 2 or so my mom got me a backless booster that I used sometimes. It was ditched sometime around age 3 or 4.

I was born in '83 and in '85 my mom totaled her car with me carseat-less in the front seat with the shoulder strap behind me. I did get a backless booster with a shield -just so I could see out the window, but eventually ditched the shield. I sat on it in the front seat until I was probably 8 or 9.
We were marvelling at the awesomeness of the seats and MIL made sure we all knew that they were top o' the line back in the day!

Unregistered1 · Nov 21, 2008

That is really cool. That they're even in seats back then is really cool, but the baby is REAR FACING! And the older kids are still in seats! That's really amazing for the time, kudos to the parents who were up on early child passenger safety!

Maedze · Nov 21, 2008

Look at the shoulder straps on the rearfacing baby

canadiangie · Nov 21, 2008

That is so amazing. :thumbsup:

You can guess that they kept the baby in the middle because that's where babies were supposed to ride back then (bigtime into middle = safest right up into the 90's I'd say).

As for the toddlers, that's awesome. I was born in '79 and went from a cream coloured bucket with brown vinyl, into a backless booster with no shield. Used it until I was about 2.5y/o, then into a lap belt or front seat belt with shoulder strap behind me. It was just fine.

Anyway, LOVE that pic.

Mama! · Nov 21, 2008

that is so awesome!

classicseats · Nov 22, 2008

All I can say is Sweet!

classicseats · Nov 22, 2008

The two seats on the outside are Peterson safety shell seats. There are catalog photos of them in my catalog album.

serabi · Nov 22, 2008

That is really, really cool.

safeinthecar · Nov 22, 2008

classicseats said:
The two seats on the outside are Peterson safety shell seats. There are catalog photos of them in my catalog album.

The seat in the center looks like the one that had you use the seat upside down for rfing and rightside up for ffing. (you rethreaded the harness)

Qarin · Nov 22, 2008

safeinthecar said:
The seat in the center looks like the one that had you use the seat upside down for rfing and rightside up for ffing. (you rethreaded the harness)

Looking at the picture again, I wonder if that's the case but that they didn't rethread the harness- it almost looks like maybe the "shoulder" straps are coming out from the sides, like they would be if that were the bottom of the seat (upside down, as you say) and those were the outside leg straps.

G8r4evr · Nov 22, 2008

Too cool!

I was born in '79 and all I know is I did have a car seat (I will have to search for a pic) Mom said that one day when we were leaving my Grandma's house, my Grandma put me in the car seat and forgot to buckle me in. Mom didnt realize until we were almost home (about 20 miles later) when we turned onto our street, I fell into the floorboard!! She said she had never been more relieved than when I started screaming.

I will have to ask her how long I stayed in a car seat.

safeinthecar · Nov 22, 2008

Qarin said:
Looking at the picture again, I wonder if that's the case but that they didn't rethread the harness- it almost looks like maybe the "shoulder" straps are coming out from the sides, like they would be if that were the bottom of the seat (upside down, as you say) and those were the outside leg straps.

I don't think that is the case. I can see the crotch strap.

classicseats · Nov 22, 2008

safeinthecar said:
The seat in the center looks like the one that had you use the seat upside down for rfing and rightside up for ffing. (you rethreaded the harness)

You are right, that is the same seat! I didn't notice that until you said something.

emandbri · Nov 22, 2008

Those are the coolest pictures! Thanks so much for taking the time to share them with us!

rodentranger · Nov 22, 2008

I'm glad you've all enjoyed them!

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