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Originally Posted by extrashaky

LOL at that story. When I was about 15, my dad bought a '59 Chevy Apache pickup truck. It didn't have seat belts, and it had a bad driver's side door latch. That sucker would fly open so easily that I just got used to driving with one hand on it to hold it closed. If I forgot to hold it closed, it would scare the shit out of oncoming traffic.

My first car was a Triumph that stayed broken more than it ran, so I drove that old Apache a lot. It's a real wonder I'm still alive.

Now that we have the safety equipment, though, we should use it.

From age 6 to 10 I rode around in my dad's 51 ford pickup that didn't even have doors much less seatbelts! It was ok though as he gave the very express instructions to "hang on" every time he turned and there were enough springs sticking through the seat to hold you in place.