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It was. As was watching the submarine races since there were multiple viable, errr, seating arrangements. A glorious time to be alive.

I'm not maga, not even close (and not American) but am struggling to see how does this sound like a future magat. But idk, maybe it's there and I'm getting old.

Ooh, same. And I can viscerally feel the seats and dash etc. The weight of the wheel when you sit and bounce on the springy seats trying to turn the wheel from side to side, and it's so heavy. The creaking squeak sound of the windows as you turn the handle. The great thunk of the door, with it's steel weight and loud creak. My dad owned one of these for a small time when I was a kid, because he's a car enthusiast. There were no seatbelts in the back, so us 3 kids thought it was hilarious to slide all the way to each side of the car (mostly uncontrollably, but with added emphasis) every time it turned a corner. Dad didn't own the car long. No idea why. I remember him getting quite frustrated with us, but we were having so much fun we just laughed. I think he gave up on getting through to us. But don't feel bad for poor Dad, he goes on to invest and enjoy some marvellous cars over the coming decades, including helping his son, the youngest of us all, become a race car driver, coincidentally, of an older car model.

You need 30kmph for it to be safe, and I'm talking proper 30 kmph, not "the sign says 30 but the road is straight and I feel quite safe being two drinks in" 30 kmph

Sounds like a win/win.

Which is the answer to much of "why modern cars are the way they are."

There's a bit of a survivor bias for old stuff.

This exactly.

Bench seats are great for hanging out with afore mentioned dog and/or girl.
Bench seats are super shitty in any sort of side impact collision. There's nothing keeping you in place except your safety belt.

My first car was a 1985 LTD that was pirpose built to scar. The seat belt, of course, but also fun little things like the controls and the metal bands in the steering wheel.

But it was also super easy to work on because the hood was the size of a small nation and you could get to anything. The big hood also gave the tires plenty of room, so it could turn on a dime. I swear you could rear-end yourself with that thing.

We used be a strong species. Now look at us.

Not nearly enough upvotes from people having this same thought. What a banger tune

Put them in Tesla's and will have a higher fatality rate than a Texan death row.

Your getting disliked cuz all the people that would have agreed with you died in there respective car crashes.

The manager probably fought to keep them. It was the engineer who wanted to save lives that made the change.