Also, seating 6 on a single bench seat and still using a 3-on-the-tree gear shift.

Me an old dino recalls that when seat belts first appeared in cars (without a shoulder harness) there were no laws to make you wear them.
Seat belts in school buses took their time keeping up with seat belts in cars. As a parent I once rode on an Alabama school bus one fine day during the early Nineties. No seat belts.

We had a ford p/u and 6 kids.
One seat. One brother sat at my moms feet, and I sat on her lap. 4 people across the seat.
LOL.

We once went to the beach. We had 13 people in the dodge 2 door car. Because all the kids wanted to go, and we had the $5 annual pass on our car. (3 moms each gave my mom $1 every year, and my mom put $2 towards it). Best investment ever. We would go many times every season to the beach.

Eventually closed do to sewage and needles.
But 13 kids. We had 4-5 in the front seat and double/triple stacked in the back.

I don't think the back seat even had seat belts.
An Old Dodge Coronet. That Trunk could hold 4 people... 2 Comfortably. LOL. Great for the drive ins (NOT that we EVER snuck someone in that way! That would be wrong!)

Man I miss drive ins... Everyone running their cars for EITHER A/C or HEAT. LOL. Just BROWNING the planet...

On an asphalt street in front of my folks' house, I with no helmet used to bail off my bike into a pile of dead leaves my dad had raked.
Bike came with a thickly wired school book basket and even that did not get bent for bouncing off pavement.
They could make stuff kid proof way back during the Fifties.

LOL! The first concert I ever attended was in the early/mid '60s to see Herman's Hermits perform that live. Had front row seats, too! I think I was 13 or 14 at the time.

Back in the 1950s things started getting bad for kids. You could still make match shooters from spring clothespins but too many fires and burnt skin from a kid shooting a match down someones shirt. Wasn't long before the springs were weakened so the match would not light. Homemade bazookas became a no-no. A cop didn't even knock, didn't need to lock doors in those days, just marched into the house and took mine. We all had pellet rifles that are illegal now in my village along with bows and arrows. Our, me and 6 siblings, mother died and a neighbor lady reported us as not having a mother so my dad had to quickly find us a mother to keep us out of foster homes. We thought that we were doing fine by ourselves. My dad found a lady at a bar who wanted kids. He took a while to tell her that there were 7 kids. A teacher could still touch a kid who was acting up and knock him against the lockers or in my case, take my arm and take me to the library to the bibles as a senior to tell me that that was where I should start. She knew that I wasn't religious and didn't like the books I wanted to report on like 'On the Road' or ' Not as a stranger', the latter a novel about medical students who had to deliver a baby. She knew that I loved science, so to counter that, assigned me 'Science is a Sacred Cow'. She was a good English teacher though no one seemed to like her.

In general things through the years got more and more illegal leaving what we have today, a kind of rotting society where there is a regulation dealing with nearly every activity leaving everyone a criminal in some way.

I'm already called a terrorist for voting thins MAGA.
I can only get away with killing Jews who I have nothing against.