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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 1220693, member: 21309&quot;]*I think you&#039;re thinking of Big Red.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>*Red Rover is a children&#039;s game where kids on opposite sides of the playing field hold hands in human chains.. . . . .</p><p>******************************************************************************************************************************</p><p>That would&#039;ve been the fifties for me.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>*********************************************************************************</p><p>I remember being a toddler and riding in my Dad&#039;s 68 Chevelle SS 396 laying in the package tray at the rear window!</p><p>(The flat area between the back glass and back of the rear seats for you younguns. Where the rear speakers are.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>He had shag carpet up there, and no speakers. Made a great place to lay.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I also remember his 78 hatchback with fold down rear seats.</p><p>He was afraid me and my sister would spill something on the seats, so he left them down.</p><p>We rode sitting on the carpet behind the front seats, indian style (criss-cross-applesauce for the younguns).</p><p>I had a permanat crink in my neck because even at 8, sitting this way I was too tall and had my head pressed against the roof.</p><p>We would go on long trips this way. It was nice when you wanted to sleep though.</p><p>(I still have that car!)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Used to ride in the back of pickups too.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My first car, a rusted out 71 Torino had huge holes in the floor pans.</p><p>The exhaust ended under the car, right at the biggest holes in the floor.</p><p>The fuel was still leaded, and the car was filled with exhaust, windows up or down. Didn&#039;t matter.</p><p>Didn&#039;t think too much of it, just made sure to stop for fresh air every once in a while</p><p>**********************************************************************************************************************</p><p>Very funny stories.&nbsp; parents would be locked up today for a lot of the stuff they got away with in the sixties.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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