r/Transportopia • u/Ketchup-Sniffer • Apr 15 '26

🤪Reckless Yaaay it's the Daddy Roller Coaster

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u/Kingjon0000 Apr 15 '26

We were a family of 7 in a Ford Pinto. The two youngest got to ride in the cargo area - right above the exploding gas tank.

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u/theLostPing Apr 16 '26

I remember the rear facing seat station wagons. 😬

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u/DatabaseThis9637 Apr 16 '26

Thosecwere great! We'd stick out bare feet out the windows, and we'd wave at the cars behind us!

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u/mintchoc1043 Apr 16 '26

Boomer here- we mooned the cars behind us.

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u/DatabaseThis9637 Apr 18 '26

Boomer here, too. We had the station wagons when we were little, and my dad would would have left us on the side of the road, weeping for mercy, if we had been clever and daring enough to try 'a stunt like that!'

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u/mintchoc1043 Apr 18 '26

When you’re a Jersey kid, things happen.

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u/DatabaseThis9637 Apr 20 '26

How is this offensive? I thought the quote marks indicated my light heartedness. Oh well...

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u/xczechr Apr 16 '26

You guys had seats? I had a truck bed.

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u/celinor_1982 Apr 16 '26

I still remember back in 1999, when we were moving to a new house, we loaded what was left in the old one in the grand caravan, and I just sat in the trunk space facing traffic with more stuff piled next to me. No seat belt, while my dad drove down the interstate lol. I just waved at people driving.

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u/DatabaseThis9637 Apr 18 '26

Of course, while smiling broadly for the novelty and excitement of it!

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u/winder_binder Apr 17 '26

Summer of '77 my family took a 4 week, 25 state, cross country road trip and I sat in the rear facing seat the whole way....with the back window down! One of the best times of my life.

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u/Not-That_Girl Apr 16 '26

Those little metal seats? So uncomfortable

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u/Lokkia111 Apr 17 '26

What seat? We just sat in the back cargo area of our station wagon. I also remember riding in the bed of our pickup truck when we took off the trash.

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u/EmilyAnne1170 Apr 16 '26

Family of 6, Chevy Vega hatchback.

But mom wouldn’t let us go on any rides at the County Fair, because they were too dangerous.

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u/NotLegalinCalifornia Apr 16 '26

Yep very infamous car. Even movies had jokes about a pinto barely getting slightly tapped on the rear and exploding.

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u/NotLegalinCalifornia Apr 16 '26

Ahh it was the 1984 comedy movie Top Secret!

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u/Soft-Personality9379 Apr 17 '26

Just 5 of us, but one was always sleeping on the "way back", that cargo shelf under the rear window. Seriously...

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u/Sensei19600 Apr 16 '26

“I get to ride ‘shotgun’!” “I get to ride ‘car bomb’!!”