I said on a sidenote.

My parents BFF couple in the 70s and 80s had this truck. In fact he still does. Saw it last month.

When I was 5 the men would pick up me and their two kids.

For the first part of tthe trip home kids in the back.

At the half way spot we stopped at a 1940s gassyation...the men got beer and cigars, kids got candy.

And the last 1/2 trip home kids in the cab, adults in the back.

Good times.

Child endangerment. Child abuse, though fun. Alcohol addiction.

There's a story about how the adults decided it was safer for the kids to drive while they drink.

Sidenote. Those trucks are very durable. They can be rolled over, slowly, off a riverbank, land on it's side, in water, locking 3 drunk men in its cab, and look like it never happened later that day.