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Saigon said:
Can’t help wondering what the injury (or worse) statistics were back then for such idiots, proper car seats were available. It’s just the same as when crash helmets became the law, I moaned and complained, but at least one definitely saved my life. I kept the first one for years, not sure why really, with the lumps missing out of it which would potentially been the lumps missing out of my head. It’s nice reminiscing about how things were at times, but when you look back I’m sure a lot of people realise how irresponsible and stupid we were.
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Bearing in mind most people weren’t driving over 30mph on the country roads, I don’t think they were complete idiots. Plus there were far less cars on the roads in those days. Modern 70’s cars didn’t have rear seatbelts, either! The seat in the photo was probably designed to stop the baby sliding into the foot well :)
 
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Wack61 said:
Thought I was at the motorway services for a minute , no, this is the BP round the corner

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What I don’t get is how can prices vary so much. In Chepstow Tesco’s for Diesel is 155 but in the Texico 1 mile away it’s 177 !!!! Yet in Gloucester where I work at Tesco’s it’s 152.9….I shall be filling in Gloucester….
 
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Andyk said:
What I don’t get is how can prices vary so much. In Chepstow Tesco’s for Diesel is 155 but in the Texico 1 mile away it’s 177 !!!! Yet in Gloucester where I work at Tesco’s it’s 152.9….I shall be filling in Gloucester….
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It's eurogarages , they're always expensive
 
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Harry said:
Bearing in mind most people weren’t driving over 30mph on the country roads, I don’t think they were complete idiots. Plus there were far less cars on the roads in those days. Modern 70’s cars didn’t have rear seatbelts, either! The seat in the photo was probably designed to stop the baby sliding into the foot well :)
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Ok, not idiots that was probably a bit too strong, perhaps not being very sensible might have been more appropriate. The first few cars we had after our first child was born didn’t have rear seatbelts fitted as standard, not particularly well off, but managed to afford to have them fitted to accommodate a proper child seat. But in saying that, I can’t really remember if I wore my seat belt before they were mandatory, perhaps it was me being the idiot !
 
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Saigon said:
Ok, not idiots that was probably a bit too strong, perhaps not being very sensible might have been more appropriate. The first few cars we had after our first child was born didn’t have rear seatbelts fitted as standard, not particularly well off, but managed to afford to have them fitted to accommodate a proper child seat. But in saying that, I can’t really remember if I wore my seat belt before they were mandatory, perhaps it was me being the idiot !
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For years as a family of #8, we were all packed into a Vauxhall Victor 101 estate car -# 3 in the front (bench seat) three in the back seat and #2 in the estate / boot. Would never dream of that now, but then it was normal.
 
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Scaf said:
For years as a family of #8, we were all packed into a Vauxhall Victor 101 estate car -# 3 in the front (bench seat) three in the back seat and #2 in the estate / boot. Would never dream of that now, but then it was normal.
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Ah, the Victor column change and bench seat. Shiny leatherette seats, somehow she always slid and snuggled up, even without any bends in the road. Sigh.
 
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montravia said:
Ah, the Victor column change and bench seat. Shiny leatherette seats, somehow she always slid and snuggled up, even without any bends in the road. Sigh.
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Back in the day a mate had a Ford Zephyr with a bench seat, used to drive/cruise round with his arm around his girl and she used to change the gears :cool:
 
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Scaf said:
Back in the day a mate had a Ford Zephyr with a bench seat, used to drive/cruise round with his arm around his girl and she used to change the gears :cool:
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Well, in those circumstances it would seem remiss not to manipulate the knob....

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