I remember back in the sixty,s that people would steal VW Beetles with the foil from a pack of cigarettes.
Well....I was walking back to my 1965 VW Bug, about 1973,and as I approached the car, I noticed something was different. It was nighttime, and we were parked under a light. As we got closer, it was still not clear just what was different. Once we were near enough, it became obvious. The front seats were gone. I imagine if I were Lew Alcindor, I could have driven it from the back seat. I called my father and oldest brother. They brought as many pillows as possible. The one thing I did not realize was that when you drive a stick shift, when you push on the clutch, your back is already against the back of your seat. It is only when no seat is present that you severely miss the back of a car seat. I had to pull on the steering wheel when I needed to shift.
I quickly learned that there are locking mechanisms one can easily install in the VW Bug that prevent theft of the front seats. The guy that sold me the VW did not tell me. Oops.