What did people do before people carriers?

[charliecat]

serious question, never go out, take 2 cars or ?

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Didn't have car seats or seatbelts. Used to lie on teh parcel shelf.

my parents had a converted ford transit van when we were young.

you could also get 4 children across the backseat of a ford escort/cortina, my parents had seat belts welded to the metal bar behind the seats.

we used to get 4 or 5 in the back seat of an allegro .

We used to have 2 kids on the front passenger seat and 4 in the back on my dad's Mini.

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dh used to sit in the hatch back area, unrestrained, with his brother. The two other boys used to sit in the back seat, bothe without seatbelts....that was the norm in those days

Used normal cars. My friend's mum had a fiat cinquecento and fitted 4 little kids in the back no problem. No seatbelt rules around then though. Still, I think there's a real tendency these days for people with only 2 or 3 kids to buy massive people carriers when a smaller car would do the job just fine.

Agree scummy. Know of people with one child who have people carriers.

I would love one (if i could afford one) dh and i have 4 kids between us and another on the way so its impossible for us all to go anywhere.

When i was a kid we all had to fit into a mini.

Also, why do people have 4x4's when they live in a city or town?

guess before seat belt laws were passed they all squashed in one car, it was niot uncommon for kids to sit on adults laps.

In the good ol' days way back in the seventies, you get get 5 kids in a mini - 4 in the back, and one in the front, sitting at the passengers feet!!!

Seriously though, I can understand having a people carrier if you've got 3 or more kids, but I know plenty round here who only have one or 2 kids who drive the things.

Still - I guess it's better than driving a 4x4 - and I'll not even start on them or I'll end up hyperventilating!!!

My friend had 7 children. They had a minibus!

my brother and 2 sisters (+me) used sit in the back, and db usedm to sit on the floor between the 2 front seats. then one day my dad had to break sharply and my brother shot forwards. they bought an ex-army minibus, complete with gun holders under the seat, soon after

at the thought of misdee and siblings in army fatigues being marched into the minibus by their dad!

shouldn't the question be 'what did people do before cars'?

I feel a Monty Python moment coming on Jools. 'Ee bah eck, when I were a lad....'

if only we were. was great for holidays. my dad got pulled over by the police as someone with a similar van had been using a catapault to fire things at other vechiles. they asked if anyone else drove the mini-bus, little sister said 'my mum cant, her legs are too short she cant reach the pedals!'

ex-army van so much better than MPV's lol.

I have already told my story about being knocked out by my dad's toolbox which flew off the back of his shelf in his van..........

my folks had a 7-seater station wagon (estate) back in the 1970s.

We had a VW caravanette. Fantastic. My parents would usually do long trips at night, and lay the whole of the back flat and carry ther four of us in in the evening, and then out again at the other end when we had arrived. It also meant we could go on trips with loads of friends (you could make the two back rows into long benches and fit in loads of kids). I can also remember driving out to the woods near where we used to go on holiday, filling the inside up with firewood, and coming home clinging on the outside! It was a very sad days when after 13 years it died on us. Holidays were never the same again.

USe the bus?

Had an estate car with extra kids (up to 4 or 5 occasionally ) in boot.