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My father had a 37 Chevy two door sedan until he bought a "new" 48 Plymouth in 1950.
Once again, how did we survive - I rode standing on the front seat between mom and dad until I could see out standing on the floor in the back.
I still remember junk yard trips when one could see blood and hair in the broken passenger side windshield shards. Early safety glass before the modern crumbly kind.
As an aside, once on a date 1987 I hit the brakes hard to avoid an accident simultaneously throwing my right arm out across my date. She broke out laughing, "You are showing your age."
 
Dad drove a Chevy pickup, my second to the oldest sister sat next to him, than my eldest sister, mom next to the passenger door. My youngest sister sat on the second to the eldest and my next to the youngest on the eldest lap. I on mom's lap. Apparently I had a very bony butt. And no lap belts.
 
We regularly had people sitting on others' laps too. Being the oldest, I usually had my brother or sister sitting on me.
We did alot of house moves too, either ourselves or helping others, and regularly sat on top of a pile of furniture on the trailer. You probably wouldn't be allowed to do that nowadays(?)
 
We regularly had people sitting on others' laps too. Being the oldest, I usually had my brother or sister sitting on me.
We did alot of house moves too, either ourselves or helping others, and regularly sat on top of a pile of furniture on the trailer. You probably wouldn't be allowed to do that nowadays(?)
Indeed. Shortest was two weeks, longest two years. I didn't settle down until I joined the military. Than the longest was three and a half in one abode.
 
The reason my dad got rid of his 37 Chevy, mentioned above, was because the clutch slipped so bad we couldn't get up the hill to home. We lived in Missouri (near McDonnell) hill country. The only way to get uphill when clutch disc was hot was in reverse. Any of you who have worked on older GM products know they had a closed driveshaft requiring much more work to replace the clutch disc.
 

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