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Posted on 4/5/21 at 7:59 am to Sidicous
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I'm so old I used to ride in the back of pickups legally
Is it illegal now? I thought your back just had to be against the cab.
Posted on 4/5/21 at 8:00 am to mylsuhat
The seats in my 01 4x4 were used like twice. The back was filled with a giant speaker box not long after getting the truck.
Posted on 4/5/21 at 8:01 am to deltaland
Once rode from Houston to Corpus and back to go fishing in those damn jump seats. Horrible. The things we do in the name of fun. 
Posted on 4/5/21 at 8:01 am to Darth_Vader
Neighbor had a Subaru Brat with the two factory bucket seats mounted in the bed. I remember there were handles on each side of the seats that you could hang on to in case the road got too bumpy.
Posted on 4/5/21 at 8:04 am to deltaland
I had a friend in High School that had these in his Suburu pickup truck bed. It was around 1984 or so.
This post was edited on 4/5/21 at 8:33 am
Posted on 4/5/21 at 8:10 am to cubsfinger
quote:Probably depends on the particular state. I remember a few of the ones I've lived in flat outlawed it, including the old Suburu idea of the molded plastic seats bolted into the bed.
Is it illegal now? I thought your back just had to be against the cab.
Posted on 4/5/21 at 8:12 am to deltaland
In the early 80s I rode a lot with my grandfather in his old van.
There was one car seat and it was for the driver. Everyone else sat on milk crates....fun times!
There was one car seat and it was for the driver. Everyone else sat on milk crates....fun times!
Posted on 4/5/21 at 8:14 am to deltaland
I still have a truck with these in the back. I used to make my kids wear batting helmets while sitting on them because one time when I took off they both smacked their heads on the rear window.
Posted on 4/5/21 at 8:17 am to Wtodd
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No...wheel tubs yes
Yep, back when it wasn't taboo to have kids riding in the back of pickup trucks. The only instruction we had at the time was to not sit on the top rails of the bed. Sit on the actual bed or wheel wells and we were good to go, even at highway speeds.
Posted on 4/5/21 at 9:16 am to deltaland
My grandfather had an old Ford Ranger with those. Damn things were small even for a kid.
Posted on 4/5/21 at 9:18 am to gumbo2176
Yep those were the rules.....remember sliding around every time the brakes were used or when you turned a corner
Posted on 4/5/21 at 9:27 am to gumbo2176
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Sit on the actual bed or wheel wells and we were good to go, even at high speeds.
This, but my grandfather also used to let all 3 of us grandkids sit on the slick metal truck tool box anywhere in the city, just never on the I-10. He'd yell "Hold on" thru the sliding back window for left & right turns.
I occasionally think about this and many other similar lucky breaks it took for me to reach 52 y/o.
Posted on 4/5/21 at 9:34 am to deltaland
my dad had a late 1980s Mazda b2200 where the back seats faced each other.
my sister and i were at the perfect age where we just pissed each other off in the back of it all the time by just staring at each other.
Posted on 4/5/21 at 9:35 am to deltaland
Yes. And it sucked even as a little kid.
Posted on 4/5/21 at 9:36 am to mylsuhat
quote:Same here
My first truck had those. A '03 Ranger Edge.
Rangers are underrated...I loved that thing!
Posted on 4/5/21 at 9:38 am to deltaland
One of my buddies had a Datsun extended cab with these sideways jumpseats in the back. I think the entire truck could fit in the back of the Crew Cab I have now.
Posted on 4/5/21 at 9:41 am to deltaland
My uncle had an old farm truck with homemade wooden rails 6 feet tall around the bed. I would climb and ride with my head 4 or 5 feet over the cab. One day I was looking back behind us at some deer and turned around just in time to catch a pine limb in the forehead. Woke up in the bed with my head against the tailgate.
Posted on 4/5/21 at 9:45 am to Darth_Vader
quote:same here. As an adult I owned a 1999 Ford F-150 with an extended cab, and there's no telling how many miles my daughter rode on that backseat.
riding in the back of a truck meant this....
Posted on 4/5/21 at 9:53 am to TexasTiger90
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Rangers are underrated.
Yes they are. I had a 95 Ranger with the 4 cylinder engine and standard transmission. Loved that truck for the great gas mileage it got, but since I was doing some home remodeling work, it had its drawbacks with the short, narrow bed.
Carrying sheet goods was a PITA with having to put about three 2 x 4's from the top of the tailgate to the front wall of the bed since they didn't fit between the wheel wells.
I lost that truck to Katrina's floodwaters and replaced it with a full size Silverado.
Now that I'm fully retired, I miss the Ranger's gas mileage even more. This Silverado gets high teens in the city and low 20's on the hwy.
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