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Did you wear seat belts growing up

Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:57 pm
Posted by ThuperThumpin
Member since Dec 2013
9593 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:57 pm
Looking back it seems so weird but nobody in my family wore seat belts growing up in the 70's and 80's. Some of my earliest memories were being stuffed in the "wayback" of our Volvo station wagon in cubby hole amongst the luggage on long trips. I didnt even start wearing a seatbelt until my girlfriend in high school bitched enough that I made it a habit in the 90's Was this just the norm back then?
Posted by hobotiger
Asbury Park, NJ
Member since Nov 2007
5436 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:58 pm to
Yes
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
76781 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:59 pm to
no. if the vehicles even had them, they were lost somewhere inside of the seats.
Posted by redfish99
B.R.
Member since Aug 2007
19774 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:59 pm to
NO Sorry to say
Posted by Salmon
I helped draft the email
Member since Feb 2008
86731 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:59 pm to
with my Dad being a fireman/EMS, yes, he was always very adamant about us wearing our seat belts

Posted by Gorilla Ball
Az via La
Member since Feb 2006
13377 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:59 pm to
No
Posted by ptra
Member since Nov 2006
1464 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:59 pm to
Dad tucked them in the seat. Never saw them
Posted by OldmanBeasley
Charlotte
Member since Jun 2014
11228 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:59 pm to
Didn’t have a car, but I used to tie myself to my horse when I got really hammered
Posted by VaeVictus
Member since Feb 2017
1957 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 12:59 pm to
No. We often stood up on the back bench seat or even squeezed onto the back dash. My youngest sibling came home in my mom's arms. They hadn't installed a car seat.

I didn't start wearing one until I got into a pretty bad accident. If I could go back and smack myself and my parents, I would.
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
111643 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:00 pm to
I can remember grandfather used to cut them out when he got a new car.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53837 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:00 pm to
Not when we were kids. My sister fell out of the car and broke her collar bone one time because she was sitting on the arm rest and the door wasn't closed all the way. Luckily we were still in the neighborhood and not going that fast
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
94726 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:01 pm to
70s - no
80s - yes

there was a big push around 1980 or so that seemed to finally get us to the point we started wearing them.

anyone remember all the mid 80s cars with seatbelts on tracks that automatically went over you when you started the car?
Posted by momentoftruth87
Your mom
Member since Oct 2013
86110 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:01 pm to
Shouldn't you know if it was the norm? I wasnt alive back then, almost boomer.
This post was edited on 3/4/20 at 1:01 pm
Posted by atrain5
Baton Rouge Correctional Facility
Member since Sep 2017
2209 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:01 pm to
Yeah.
I enjoy life.
Posted by Speedy G
Member since Aug 2013
3984 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:02 pm to
LOL, no. I used to sit on the passenger door armrest of mom's Buick with my arm out the window. On long family trips, I slept on the shelf under the rear window (my sisters took the rear seat and floor). Good times.
Posted by texasmason
Dallas
Member since Apr 2019
1300 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:03 pm to
Only if we were in the front seat.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
20393 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:03 pm to
I grew up when seatbelts were not in most cars, and by the time they were standard in cars, I hardly ever wore one.

I didn't really start wearing them until they started issuing tickets for not wearing them because even though it did become a law, most police didn't bother enforcing it.

ETA: Hell, I remember sitting on the sides of pick-up beds rolling down the road as a kid in my uncles pick-up truck on the way to going fishing. If we wanted to feel safe, we'd sit on the humps of the wheel wells that were about 1 ft. lower into the bed.
This post was edited on 3/4/20 at 1:06 pm
Posted by papasmurf1269
Hells Pass
Member since Apr 2005
21468 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:04 pm to
No. My parents arms were my seatbelt
Posted by EveryoneGetsATrophy
Member since Nov 2017
2907 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:06 pm to
Couldnt stand up on the seat if you had it on. I dont think the back seats even had them. People concentrated on driving back then, not on their phones.
Posted by ThuperThumpin
Member since Dec 2013
9593 posts
Posted on 3/4/20 at 1:06 pm to
quote:

anyone remember all the mid 80s cars with seatbelts on tracks that automatically went over you when you started the car?


Yep. We had an 88 Camry that had those...along with the weird design trend in GM cars to connect the seatbelts to the doors.
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