Because they both died in a fender bender.
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Bench seats had seat belts in the middle.
seat belts alone are not as safe considering the side bags and front bags you get with a bucket seat
Sorry bud, all I've got are good girls who are cute dogs
good girls who are cute dogs
That may not be what they meant.
Had a girlfriend when I was in highschool who was too old for me, had an old Chevy Blazer and loved the Cake song Stickshifts and Safetybelts. Everything about her was fun on a bench seat.
too old for me
Dude did you have sex with your teacher?
Summer job coworker
Ah that makes a lot of sense, actually.
“She is just giving me a ride to/from work" was often the excuse if people saw ust together but honestly no one cared. The fact she WASN'T a teacher made it no big deal.
I mean, if it's consensual and there's no power imbalance it's nobody's business
That is literally the only way for that to happen. Yes.
It's all good until safety is a consideration
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.
I'd love to own a Chevy suburban from the old days. I'd just drive it slow lol
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.
So kind of like the backseat of most modern vehicles?
Ever look at the back seat of a modern vehicle? It's almost never a flat bench. There's indentations, they're just less deep than the front seat.
Yea, I own several. And they are not indented.
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I can both smell and hear this picture.
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.
No bitches
Bench seating: what you use when Captain's chairs are just not uncomfortable enough for your tastes.
Drop speed limits back down to 50mph and you've got a deal
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
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Yeah because that engineers cute girl and dog probably died in a T bone accident.
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