Infant Car Seat in 1981...

Blondie87 · Dec 21, 2008

So we were at my in laws yesterday and we were looking through pictures and I found a few of my DH when he was in his infant car seat. He was born in Decemeber of 1981. My MIL said that it just had a strap that went between their legs and around their waist, looked like the ones in high chairs now. Then they buckled the seatbelt over the carseat. She said that they never got into an accident.. but still, that's crazy. I can't believe how far we have come!!

He's a twin.. lol..

I have a couple car seat pics of me from 1987.. the car seat looks pretty much the same...

monstah · Dec 21, 2008

That's crazy! I'll have to see if my mom can dig up pictures of my car seat, I was also born in Dec of 1981.

Blondie87 · Dec 21, 2008

Here is my carseat in 87.. It's crazy how they didn't do anything different between 81 and 87. Or maybe my mom just bought an older carseat?

fyrfightermomma · Dec 21, 2008

He looks so squished! lol. It's so narrow!

my2kidsSafe · Dec 21, 2008

fyrfightermomma said:
He looks so squished! lol. It's so narrow!

that is so they can fit four or 5 kids in the back seat of the car. Sharing seatbelts of course.

NannyMom · Dec 21, 2008

Hmm...When I go to my parents' house on Thursday, I'll have to see if nay of our baby pics include a carseat

I was a July 81 baby.

*Spoiledinmyhouseofblue* · Dec 21, 2008

I have a pic of me in a seat like that and I was born in 82'...but I asked my mom about it(on the phone with her now) and she said that she just put it in the car(not seatbelt). :thumbsdown: Yup, she still doesnt' care about carseat saftey.
I also had a brown metal vinyl carseat when I was 6 months (FF).

canmom · Dec 21, 2008

It is amazing we are here to tell the stories (or hear them rather)... shocking! I think my mom said she had a seat for me but often she just held me

CarSeatPoncho · Dec 21, 2008

A few years ago, I happened to flip by "Raising Arizona" (1987) on cable. It jus happened to be the scene where John Goodman and Nicholas Cage were stealing the baby, and they were carrying him around in his infant seat. I gasped at how flimsy it looked! It definitely did not have a 5 pt harness... maybe a 3 pt.

IMDB won't let me copy and paste the pic, but here's a still of the baby and infant seat:

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2515765760/tt0093822

Blondie87 · Dec 21, 2008

Dang.. at least that seat had a harness tho! That must have been a really high end one back then...

classicseats · Dec 21, 2008

CarSeatPoncho said:
A few years ago, I happened to flip by "Raising Arizona" (1987) on cable. It jus happened to be the scene where John Goodman and Nicholas Cage were stealing the baby, and they were carrying him around in his infant seat. I gasped at how flimsy it looked! It definitely did not have a 5 pt harness... maybe a 3 pt.

IMDB won't let me copy and paste the pic, but here's a still of the baby and infant seat:

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2515765760/tt0093822

Looks like a Cosco-Peterson to me?

classicseats · Dec 21, 2008

Blondie87 said:
So we were at my in laws yesterday and we were looking through pictures and I found a few of my DH when he was in his infant car seat. He was born in Decemeber of 1981. My MIL said that it just had a strap that went between their legs and around their waist, looked like the ones in high chairs now. Then they buckled the seatbelt over the carseat. She said that they never got into an accident.. but still, that's crazy. I can't believe how far we have come!!

He's a twin.. lol..

I have a couple car seat pics of me from 1987.. the car seat looks pretty much the same...

If I'm right, that isn't even a car seat. I believe it's only a carrier?

Blondie87 · Dec 21, 2008

I dunno but they used it as a carseat! lol I had the same one. But I haven't talked to my mom to ask her if it was my carseat, I just assumed.

classicseats · Dec 21, 2008

Blondie87 said:
I dunno but they used it as a carseat! lol I had the same one. But I haven't talked to my mom to ask her if it was my carseat, I just assumed.

I believe I have one in the collection and all it has is a vinyl strap around the waist to hold the baby in!

Blondie87 · Dec 21, 2008

classicseats said:
I believe I have one in the collection and all it has is a vinyl strap around the waist to hold the baby in!

Yup. It just looks like the kind of straps high chairs have. There were some other car seat pics that showed it, not buckled but pokin out the side, but I forgot to grab them. So do you really think it's a carrier only? Good thing they were never in an accident!

classicseats · Dec 21, 2008

Blondie87 said:
Yup. It just looks like the kind of straps high chairs have. There were some other car seat pics that showed it, not buckled but pokin out the side, but I forgot to grab them. So do you really think it's a carrier only? Good thing they were never in an accident!

Yep, it's got to be a carrier. I'll have to dig mine out to show you. I'm positive. I never posted it here because it wasn't a car seat.

classicseats · Dec 22, 2008

I think this is it? $18.99 in 1983.

ctbcleveland · Dec 22, 2008

Blondie - I know this is not your intent...but you are making many of us feel very OLD showing us baby pictures of you in 1987!

Blondie87 · Dec 22, 2008

classicseats said:
I think this is it? $18.99 in 1983.

Thats it! Dang! lol.

Blondie87 · Dec 22, 2008

ctbcleveland said:
Blondie - I know this is not your intent...but you are making many of us feel very OLD showing us baby pictures of you in 1987!

lol sorry..

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