I have great memories of the time, just not if "Rear seatbelts became standard in '68, '64 up front." :D Not something the average child thinks about or remembers in the 60's.

It depends on the childs age and interests, but the seatbelt thing I had to look up 3 days ago. :lol:

Bastid. :)

They may have been standard installation, but I'm pretty sure it was still legal to drive without them, right? As late as about 1980, a car salesman was trying to convince my mother-in-law that a particular vehicle would be perfect for them, despite the fact that they were a family of 5 and it only had 4 seatbelts.

Actually, now that I think about it, children now have all sorts of seatbelt laws, but I think it's still legal today to be an unbelted adult in the back seat.

When I was a little kid, children only had to be belted in the back if they were 3 or under. I know this because my mom lied to a cop about my brother's age when she got pulled over after the cop saw my brother and I bouncing around in the backseat. That was in the early 80s, so not that long ago. Now, kids have to have carseats until they are 7 or something. And no front seaters at all.

That was like a quarter of a century ago!

Seat belts? I remember lying on the ledge under the back window of Dad's Malibu watching the tree-tops fly by... that was apparently before bad things could happen.