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Hah, pplains. I have ridden in such vehicles as well, but I doubt I'd cruise down yr average suburban street like that today.
In my childhood, the preferred method for long car trips was to fold down the back seats of a Beetle, spread out blankets and sleeping bags, and have everyone (5 kids + dog) lolling about in this space.
For shorter trips, the two smallest children (my stepsister and I) were placed in the "wayback," that is, the space between back seat and rear window.
Unfortunately, this topic tends to invite choruses of Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen-style "Luxury! We had to travel in the wheelwells; me ma was in the trunk! We had gravel for breakfast and rotten badgers for supper AND WE LIKED IT."
― plenty offish (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:00 (seven years ago) link
I tell my kids the same thing. (We're at the same stage you all are.)
"Yeah, we got to ride in the back of pick-ups. We'd lay the seats down in the back of my dad's 280Z and my sister would have a pillow pallet back there. We ride in the storage space of the Suburban or the station wagon, and sometimes when we were tired, we'd pull the vinyl shade from its roll over us and take a nap!
"Also, your aunt's head went through a windshield not once, but twice. IT WAS A PART OF LIFE."
― pplains, Thursday, 25 August 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
my son was in a full 5-point harness until he was almost 7, my daughter rode rear-facing until she was 4, come at me
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:30 (seven years ago) link