Although, I'm sure, this does not mean you have never been in the back seat of some of these cars (especially the Olds 98) for some kind of a "ride".
Posted on 09/15/2021 5:37:55 PM PDT by SamAdams76
When was the last time you rode in the back seat of your own automobile?
I have owned at least eleven cars since I started driving in 1979:
I might have missed one or two and I'm not counting my wife's cars - though I did point out she wrecked my F-150, the one pickup truck that I ever owned. She lost control over a patch of ice and flipped it into a pumpkin field. She climbed out of the truck just fine but the truck never recovered.
Anyhow, I can't remember ever riding in the back seat of any of those cars. It always seemed that I was either the driver or I was riding shotgun while my wife took a turn on long drives.
Then there was that time I got a colonoscopy and the doctor strictly ordered that I be driven home by my wife. She did not flip the car on the way home that time but we did stop for a steak dinner and a couple tall beers on the way home (against doctor's orders). But still, that wasn't the dreaded back seat, which is the province of car-seated babies, obnoxious in-laws and dogs.
Dogs do seem to be pretty content riding in the back seat. Mother in laws, not so much, and they are always shouting at you to either slow down or turn the radio down. Whereas dogs love the speed, especially with the windows rolled down.
I'm not sure I would even fit in the backseat of my own car. I'm sort of tall and I keep the driver's seat pushed way to the rear. At the car wash, I'll thrust a vacuum back there once in a while but I never actually get into the back seat for even that.
I'm thinking my experience of never sitting in the back seat of my own car is not all that uncommon. When would a situation ever arise when the owner of a car would sit in the back seat of a car he or she owned?
Either you are in the driver's seat or you have dibs on shotgun when you own the car.
Fiat 124 #1
Fiat 124 #2 (parts car to keep #1 alive)
Fiat 124 #3 (after #1 died)
Mazda 626
Ford pickup (old, model unknown)
Mercury Capri
Chevy C10 pickup w/ snowplow
Mazda RX-7
Isuzu Trooper #1
Subaru Impreza
Ford F-150 pickup #1 w/ snowplow
Isuzu Trooper #2
Subaru Outback
Ford F-150 pickup #2 w/ snowplow
Toyota Prius
Toyota Tundra pickup w/ snowplow
The pickups didn't have back seats.
Of all those the only one where I ever spent time in the back seat was Fiat 124 #1, and that was to have sex to prove it could be done in the back seat of a Fiat. That's not really "riding", well, depending on your definition of "riding".
I wouldn’t doubt it. If they’re goal is one unified system of traffic, that’s going to take a ‘Mega-Ton’ of Benjamins!
There’s a backseat driver joke here somewhere.
“When would a situation ever arise when the owner of a car would sit in the back seat of a car he or she owned?”
Well, when I was younger there was this girl.
Unfortunately there was a dearth of private parking areas where she lived. Her sister didn’t mind driving while we made the creature with two backs in the backseat. We found out a 1970 Chevelle SS is actually pretty roomy in the back.
Then there was the time a buddy drove my old Rambler while his sister and I were engaged in the back.
Then there was the Monte Carlo.
If that car could talk I would be either dead or living in some other country.
Now that I think about it...there were quite a few girls that experienced the back seat of my various automobiles while it was being driven.
I was just lucky that way.
All together now, one, two, three
Keep your mind on your drivin’
Keep your hands on the wheel
Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead
We’re havin’ fun sittin’ in the back seat
Kissin’ and a’huggin with Ken.
A friend of mine’s mother had a ‘69 Caprice Coupe. Fantastic car.
They foolishly traded it in for a snazzy new 1980 Citation (aka POS).
My friend was PISSED at his parents for that move.
Braking news.
Although, I'm sure, this does not mean you have never been in the back seat of some of these cars (especially the Olds 98) for some kind of a "ride".
Nah, I do the same!
Really. It would take two parents and a teen practicing, a rare occurrence.
Well not when I’m the only person driving.
I rode my Wife in the back seat a few times, does that count?
I know what you mean. My car back then was a 70 Camero. My next car was a 75 Monte Carlo. Those front seats folded down. 🙂
Things you never here Shaq say for 1000
You should there is a really neat little Nativity scene in there
Who hasn’t
69 Chev 4 door Biscayne wasn't too shabby either.
Dads 72 Impala 4 door too
Dads 76 Honda Civic was terrible!
Do vans count?
That would explain the voices and the animal sounds.
I get car sick in the back seat, even today. So no.
If this is the inane trivia thread for the night I offer up the philtrum. Anyone know what it is? :)
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