Testing the DUMBEST Feature Ever Put In a Car!

( www.alltfl.com/ ) Check out our new spot to find ALL our content, from news to videos and our podcasts! No one can argue the 1979 Subaru Brat is anything but quirky, but can you actually use its signature feature on modern roads? Well, it depends...Kase and Tommy cover the details in this comprehensive review!
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00:00-01:28 Intro
01:28-04:30 Strapping In
04:30-05:39 First Impressions
05:39-08:23 Why Rear Seats?
08:23-09:46 Legality
09:46-13:50 Pros and Cons
13:50-15:15 How Cool We Look
15:15-22:56 McDonald's
22:56-25:24 Highway Driving
25:24-29:16 Off-Road Comfort
29:16-32:44 Off-Road Crawling
32:44-39:00 Mudding
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[@lawdog516]

I laughed through the complete video, GREAT job guys !!

[@TFLclassics]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@1969chgoodwin]

​@@TFLclassicsIn other words they were getting "cock blocked" 🤣

[@bilbojenkins5276]

Best friend in HS took a set of these and threw them in the back of his 80's Toyota pickup. Cops would stop of regularly to ask, 'Is that legal??,' and it was! Rode in the back for a 4 hour drive down the highway and it was the most miserable car ride of my life. I didn't know you could get sunburned while being so cold at the exact same time....

[@mikebelcher5111]

A road in the back of the truck, most of the 80s, without a seat of any kind never got pulled over for it. I'm pretty sure right in the back of the truck was still legal in the 80s.

[@naturedetectiveminecraft6362]

​@@mikebelcher5111in Florida you can still do it long as your 18+ and your back is straight along the cab and you are not elevated

[@EpictheEpicest]

@@naturedetectiveminecraft6362 and you're not alive

[@chrishultgren777]

​@@mikebelcher5111cops in the 1980s didn't care until the safety belt 1990s came along.

[@mikebelcher5111]

@chrishultgren777 still legal though

[@matthewj2492]

Growing up in the sixties, it was normal for people to ride in the back of the truck. My whole little league team was fit in the back of the pickup to go get ice cream after a game.

[@jesusj7578]

In the rural areas of Mexico you drink beer and travel sitting on the edge !😅

[@forgetittube5882]

Exactly. No “seats” never mind seat belts ! Good times, before all those safety regulations…

[@michaelburbank2276]

back when kids were adults

[@57WillysCJ]

I spent most of my pre 16 years riding in the back of a truck. We could leave high school at noon for lunch so there would be a whole load of guys going down town for lunch. I learned to absorb bumps stand not on a motorcycle but in the back of a truck. Plus as the gate opener on farms you rode on the tailgate. The cab of the truck was like the big table at family dinners.

[@unconventionalideas5683]

That's actually still not completely abnormal in much of the US South...

[@kdowz934]

My dad was a Subaru tech since 1980. I rode in the back of a Brat many times as a kid. Very fond memories.

[@1guyin10]

It was the 70's. We rode in the bed of pickups all the time. Dad kept a wooden bench in the bed for us to sit on. The Brat seemed like an upgrade verses just sitting on the floor.

[@jamesgreen5560]

Same here. And we never put a tailgate down to get in the back. You put your foot on the bumper or climb over the side by stepping on the tire!

[@pmarr98]

This is hilarious video. A 79 Subaru Brat was my first car and I had people in the back all through high school until upgraded to a 83 cj7 which probably wasn’t much safer

[@wolfshanze5980]

As a Gen-Xer, we drank from water hoses, played on steel playground equipment on asphalt playgrounds, rode our bikes without helmets and jumped on planks of wood propped up on bricks... and YES, we LOVED riding in the back of trucks (usually without seats)... as to the BRAT itself, rode in it, didn't bother with the lap belts, because most kids would ride without seats to begin with. In the 70s and 80s, kids would PREFER to ride in the back of a truck then in an stuffy cab. Somehow... we're still alive today!

[@bldontmatter5319]

Yeah, and your gen lost a TON of people back then

[@GeorgiaRidgerunner]

​@@bldontmatter5319 coough cough tide pods and condom snorting challenge

[@burtronomaniac]

Yes we would rather ride in the back because the cab was full of cigarette smoke

[@wolfshanze5980]

@bldontmatter5319 no... no we didn't... your generation is just scared of your own shadow.

[@harriettanthony7352]

This +70yr old agrees with these thoughts. He routinely rode in the back of his dads 1930s/40s? Chevy truck, and played with mercury AND asbestos , and lives to thumb his nose at the Nanny State

[@Tobymt1925]

Im 55, we rode in the back of pickup trucks, back dash of cars, back of station wagons..... no seat belts... love your videos especially the Model T ones since I have one.

[@RickR69]

UP HILL! BOTH WAYS!

[@enz6312]

And that was when we were kids!! Parents didn't have to worry about "child endangerment ". Now if kids aren't strapped in 15 different ways and wrapped in bubble wrap, the parents get arrested and tossed in jail.

[@jakecease]

In the Midwest we still did that in the 80s and 90s

[@clayton7825]

People that give up freedom for safety deserve and will receive neither- Ben Franklin

[@EdgeRatedR007]

@@enz6312 That's because the ones that died can't talk. Survivorship bias is real.

[@lawrencefine5020]

We grew up riding in the back of pickup truck beds. No seats, no seatbelt let alone a three point harness. We just sat on the wheel well. Yes, we were stupid, yes we weren't thinking of safety and yes we had fun. And yes, we were lucky we never got thrown out of these old pickup truck beds and died. Safety was always last in the 70's. Fun video

[@Shockedbywater]

13:18 'We look like kids strapped into a shopping cart' LMAO what a great line and so accurate.

[@carlov.3017]

This episode is hysterical and Alex is the man. The screams, the awkwardness, the pointing & laughing, too funny! Looking forward to the next episode. Perhaps car spotting from the rear seats of a BRAT?

[@aaroncostello8812]

These seats were put into the back of Brats to get around the 25% 'Chicken Tax' on imported light trucks. The seats made the Brat a passenger vehicle instead of a light truck and not subject to the tax. These seats were usually removed at the dealership before rhe vehicle was sold. This tax still exists today.

[@dipren443]

Yup. And I believe the upcoming grenadier truck will be subject to it.

[@valiantviktor]

I read this in Butthead's voice. xD

[@dylanfgarrison]

In the early 80s, my mom‘s boyfriend had one of these. I recall riding around town by myself in the back of that thing. I was around four years old and I absolutely loved it. Safe no. Fun… yes!

[@thomward2902]

My mom had a '79 BRAT when I was a kid. My friends and I loved riding in the back. Many trips were spent back there.

We weren't so obsessed with safety back then. We sat in the back of trucks all the time. Vans as well, sat on the floor on foam.

[@-Jethro-]

You got foam? Lucky! We had bare metal! 😂

[@coryernewein]

We've fallen so far

[@Torsee]

@@coryernewein The Nanny State was the end of thinking.

[@coryernewein]

@@Torsee critical thinking and personal accountability have become almost as rare as hens teeth for sure.

[@Jr210100]

@@coryernewein Fallen into an idiocracy.

[@Lyallthetime]

Alex having the time of his life, trying to freak out or embarrass the guys 🤣

[@IronmanV5]

"Who would you talk into riding into these seats?" "Bro, hold my beer"🍺

[@cageordie]

Kids. Until recently it was normal, especially in rural areas.

[@Tully3674]

Funny video. Next want to see Nathan and Andre in the back seats while Roman and Mr. Truck go up the Ike.

[@mack_titan]

I wish they bring back small economical pickups like this....

[@gordocarbo]

Remember the 80s Toyota pickups? 99 down 99 a mo tough little trucks

[@XinmingChen]

I’m from China and I vividly remember in the late 90s our elementary school put us 30 kids at the bed of a huge cargo truck for a field trip. It was all fun and normal back then. It would be a liability nightmare today.

[@LebronPhoto1]

Having seats and seat belts was a step up in safety from just piling into the back of a pickup truck. Also, if you were a kid, that was probably a fun experience.

[@bradfaubion3699]

That Subaru is rhino guard then painted? That’s cool. It looks good. That model Brat the Gen 1 also had two canopy options you could get. A high top and a low top. Both versions were to accommodate a high or low roll bar if it was equipped in the vehicle. This car shown is a low top roll bar. With a high roll bar you can sit rain free under the canopy, and would have windows like a typical canopy for air flow. And for no reason you could get a front bumper with a winch or snow blow attachment.

[@LukeEdward]

Considering the title, I thought Nathan would be driving! . . . And the 26:00 comes along and the title rings true. . . Kidding, man!

[@lesliefranklin1870]

Kids used to ride in the back of pickup trucks all the time, without seats. This was a big upgrade at the time. It was also useful for backing into a space at a drive-in movie theater.

[@lesliefranklin1870]

Of course, a lot of kids were lost when the truck hit a large bump or was involved in an accident.

[@Hamilton-bm4qj]

Ahh these guys are so precious . Riding in the back of pickups was quite common before the days of the quad-extendo cab trucks that are so common now. I had to ride in the back of an old ford range w my brother through the Appalachian mountains in the rain.

[@parkerfoxhoven7550]

I’m half way through this video and I’m convinced you should keep the Brat forever and make a weekly video just like this. By far the funniest video I’ve watched in a long, long time. This is so great!

[@fantomtuba]

I'd love TFL to make a video of calling and talking to their insurance provider, asking if it's OK to ride in the back and the insurance companies' response.

[@jeffreylines1535]

You have to transport yourself back to the 70s when riding in the back of the pickup was a common thing. The least safe was probalby the teanagers driving with the bed full of friends heading to a drive in or the lake. People didn't see safety the same back then, we were not as worried about it. I remember when it wasn't a law to wear a seatbelt at all, people resisted when the law was passed.

[@Cherokeelion]

Yup many days just ridin around in the back as a kid

[@bldontmatter5319]

And a lot of people died or got hurt to stupid stuff back then.

[@mb34928]

This was our families only transportation in 1979-81. It was my mom and 3 kids in Maine. Yup Maine! It was so cold one winter that we had to put a shop light with a 100 watt bulb under the car so the oil was warm enough to start the car. I was the eldest child at home so I got to sit in the front. I actually learned to drive stick in that car. I loved that car, there are so many great memories!!!

[@JF-lt5zc]

This is the best TFL anything video in years. No sponsorship plugs, no being intentionally nice about cars that you feel otherwise about, etc. Just good wholsome fun.

[@sharondyott6510]

It gave flashbacks to my childhood. We rode in the back of anything in the sixties, seventies and eighties. My friend had a Brat he had a custom cap made for it . We would sit in back as children we thought it was the coolest thing 😂. When I got my first vehicle it was a 79 Datsun pickup . I put a cap on it and then put some van seats in the back. We thought we were so smart and I also put cup holders in . I don't think cup holders were put in vehicles until the nineties. You had to be a tough kid when you grew up in the sixties seventies and eighties. 😂

[@SHUB281]

Love seeing you youngins bringing back the memories of my youth !

[@jdfleetguy28]

Love these fun videos! Great job guys! Absolutely a fun and hilarious video, one of your all time best! Makes for fun upbeat start to the weekend seeing these fun videos on a Saturday morning. Thanks guys!

[@99unclebob]

this is the best you guys have produced with the people that count most and the whole video was shits and giggles buzzing around in the back of Subaru Brat, my neighbour had i think it was the 3rd or 4th one sold in Manitoba and we went camping in it and his younger brother and i rode in those seats almost 2 hours to the lake camp ground at 70 mph and people were waving at us and smiling away probably thinking we were nuts, then a Ford F100 passed us with half a dozen teenagers in the box drinking and smoking weed hollering at us and laughing, it was a good weekend ,camping no rain and they just fogged the campgrounds so there wasn't too many mosquitos, good memories and good times , Nathan driving put it to its limits very quickly 😂

[@nlpnt]

Nissan and Toyota didn't have US assembly in the '70s, the workaround they used was that the Chicken Tax only applied to completed vehicles (note the Type 2 VW is unibody) so they imported their trucks as cab-and-chassis and the beds flatpacked separately in bulk, put the beds together and mounted them at dockside facilities.

[@chriscon8463]

Hilarious video, guys! I remember seeing these Brats around back in the day; I never saw anyone actually ride in the back of one. It’s really tiny back there & I had no idea how little room there actually is!

[@7728abbott]

Great work together, guys! Excellent content, great laughs! Brats are cool!

[@scubatrucker6806]

I remembered riding in the back of my dad's truck without seats and later on he bolted a bench seat in the bed.❤❤❤ good times and memories. This episode is funny😂😂😂

[@weegeemike]

This me reminds me of my dad's pickup bed story he loves to tell. When he was a kid he had to travel from LA to Lake Havasu, AZ in the back of a '65 Dodge pickup because that was the only vehicle his parents had at the time and since he was the older brother he had to endure 100F Temps and the baking sun for hours and hours...he saw the lord that day 😂😂

[@impgt67]

Hi guys, David here from Tasmania, Australia. Great video, fun all the way. How ironic is it that 2 of the ads shown through the video were for new Suburu SUV's. A neighbour 2 doors down from me still has, and drives regularly, one of these utes. (thats what they are called downunder) Here in Australia they were marketed as the "Brumby". A pretty rare car these days, yet when we first moved to Tasmania in 2007, there was 4 of them in the town I live in.

[@speedbird3955]

I own a Brat and people love it. Men, women, girls, boys will wave and smile, it generates a lot of positive energy and comments. Some people don't even know what it is but others will tell me about a Brat memory from their past and always with a big smile on their face. I don't have the seats though.........

[@KRangasan]

AMAZING video gents!!! I loved it, especially cause as a young kid I used to ride in my Aunties Brat, in those same seats here in hawai'i

[@user-uw4ch8qr5e]

Great fun video! Tommy and Case provide hilarious commentary. Loved it.

[@Group_Anonymous]

The seats were a ploy to circumvent a punitive tariff on light trucks known as the Chicken tax. The plastic seats in the cargo bed allowed Subaru to classify the BRAT as a passenger car, rather than as a light truck. This significantly reduced the costs of importing BRATS to North America, as passenger cars were charged a 2.5% import tariff, while light trucks were charged a ten times higher 25% import tariff.

[@chriscordray8572]

We use to put a bunch of friends in the back of our trucks and hit all the bumps along the beach in south texas. Throwing a few out sometimes cause they would sit in the bed rails. No one was ever really hurt cause we never went that fast down the beach. My friend had a Subaru Brat and I has a Ford Courier. We would run them pretty hard down the beach when playing around. Of course without rear passengers.

[@xlerb2286]

A buddy gave a couple friends a ride home from school one weekend. He had a BRAT and I lost the coin toss and got the back seat. That was a 400 mile round trip but I only had the back one way, the other friend got it on the way back. He had a topper on it so I didn't have the trouble with the wind and dirt. But you had to sit all hunched over so it sure wasn't a fun trip.

[@Trance88]

I love this little thing. My parents really wanted one back in the early 80's. From what my mom said they settled on a brand new 1982 2WD Subaru GL wagon. It unfortunately got repoed a few months after they got it when my dad was between jobs and they missed ONE payment!

[@donreid6399]

A buddy of mine had one back when I was a teenager, and we had a blast riding around in it. At that time, you'd often see pickups driving around with all the kids riding in the bed, so having the seats in the Brat was considered a safety feature!

[@johnwarren9993]

I grew up in the 70's, we used to love riding in the back of pick-ups. I especially loved it when it got bouncy in the back. It felt like one of the rides at the fair.😂

[@mikeshumaker7952]

I'm 38 now... learned how to drive stick in one of these when I was 12.. 1st to the tip of the drive way... reverse back the way I came... love it

[@robertpettus6037]

I'm 34 and I have awesome memories of my older brother and I riding in those jump seats while my dad drove.

[@thomasbenefield3527]

As a North Georgia man who grew up in upas a kid in the 80s, I rode in the back of trucks all the time! My favorite was the seats in my dad’s BRAT!

[@aedwards123]

Birth of a new channel - TFLFastFood 😀

[@haweater1555]

There was an optional wind fairing on the roof available to make passengers more comfortable. Still no rollover protection.

[@wafive]

These were sold as a "Brumby" in Australia, we did not get the rear seats. They had a reputation as being a very tough little car.

[@gordocarbo]

They were, most who lived in mountains/snow had one or an old Jeep for winter.

[@glissemaster]

GenX here. I remember riding in the back of my dad's pickup truck down the 101 Freeway in the Bay Area in the 70s or early 80s. I think it was legal until seatbelt laws came in the mid-80s. Even in the 90s is was common to ride in the back of a truck -- just lay down so you don't get caught. I had friends who had Brats and have sat in the back many times -- including during a snowstorm.

[@Wezi427]

Kids strapped to the back of a shopping cart😂😂😂 I almost choked on my lunch.

[@dallinn9164]

Here in Australia, it's called the Subaru Brumby. They don't put the seats in the back, but they put the little pegs for the hold-down straps on a tonneau cover lining the edge of the tray.

[@scottcaldwell8356]

I was about 11 when my day bought a new 83 brat . I loved it in the summer. Winter sucked even with the topper on and rear sliding window open for heat

[@Mike-01234]

Growing up in the 70s and 80's we rode in the back of pickup trucks all the time. I remember going on camping trips from Southern California to Yellowstone riding in the back of a 72 Ford F-100 pickup all the way there laying down looking up at the stars on a bed roll and sleeping bag for a pillow. The truck was only a single cab.

[@jensalan]

I would love it if Tommy and Case would do more of the bigger videos. These two are much more fun to watch and you can tell they research everything before recording. Roman and Nathan are getting increasingly harder to watch. And more often than not, they just start complaining about things and I often see them making more mistakes.

[@tmill2001]

In the 1980s most of us didnt have the luxury of seats in the back of trucks! You loved riding with dogs in the back!! LoL

[@MrRedtaco11]

We did this in the early 90s as kids. It was in a bed, no straps, just sitting there holding on. It was so much fun. It’s not bad Tommy. Lol

[@JaxonRamblers]

I remember those trucks and thinking it was strange to have seats in the bed. But don't remember seeing all that harness stuff on any of them. I grew up in the era when if you were a kid and your dad drove a pickup, you bet your butt you'd be sitting in the bed whenever we went anywhere. We loved it. We went down the highway 75-80 mph with the wind in our hair on short and long trips. Just never stand up!

[@jakebooker3040]

Nice video, I remember spending many hours in the back of a Brat in high school.

[@elizabethhopkins3826]

Nicely done! It brought back memories of being in the bed of my father's 1969 Ford Truck with pine needles flying up in my face which was covered in sap!! LOL

[@airwess3369]

Seats are small because that's where us kids sat. In the back of the truck bed. Our Seats in the Chevy was the wheel well hump. And whenever Dad would punch the gas or brakes and we went flying the adults inside laughed. Parents barely parented and we grew up fine and well adjusted. Nowadays kids are coddled and parents thrown in jail for taking their eyes off their kids for 1 second and kids are absolutely out of control.

[@Todd_S]

Case and Tommy are a great duo. I love these adventures and their conversation.

[@chrishultgren777]

i can still remember seeing these brats on the showroom floor. spent the 1980s riding in the back of pickup trucks during the 1980s when i was in elementary school age. even rode on the freeway, no seats or belts. nobody called the cops in Los Angeles

[@thisisafox1961]

I thought the talk of chickens at the start was a euphemism for something that I was missing, took me a while to realize they were legitimately talking about taxation on chickens.

[@craig3916]

"How can anyone think this is OK" ohhh how i laughed . as the shot moves to Alex in the relative safety of the BRAT cabin laughing as he says we are doing 80. You just know he is trying for 88 Great episode guys, fantastic vibes n informative even . love how you make a genuine effort to keep it fun (rather than make fun or disrespect these old cars ) but also nice to see younger enthusiasts like u , tryinbg to discovere n enjoy these older models . checking out and showing us as u find out the beauty and interest n features of these old n quirky cars . rather than so many others that just point out how crappy they seem compared to 2024 cars thanks . ....

[@BrianPorter2Bs3Cs]

Rode in the back of a brat everyday to high school in mid 80s... great memories

[@g-mang-man7924]

A friend at high school had a Brat. I rode in the back many times. I have also ridden in the back of many pickups over my years too. All of that was destroyed by a Ford Courier and a kid named Alan Cole. He drove his little truck filled with high schoolers down Patuxent Road in Maryland and missed a corner and killed several kids. Maryland passed a law that no one could ever ride in a pickup bed ever again. It was called the Alan B. Cole law.

[@a2jettagli]

That's how my late uncle passed well, but it was off-road and the truck hit a rut and he popped out.

[@thebigguy8306]

BRAVO, good review guys. I come from the era (60s-70s) when compact pickups alone were the oddity, noted the mini-Ranchero/El Camino vibes Brought in Nathan to do some off-road testing, I thought Alex looked different, maybe haircut

[@malakai713]

great channel, may the algorithm gods bless you guys :)

[@DuaneCaldwell]

Oh, the whining! LOL Growing up in the days before seat belt laws existed (and highway deaths were much more frequent), we loved riding in the back of open pickups and utes like the Brat, El Camino, and Ranchero. Double cab pickups were a rarity back then. Fun video that brought back old memories. Thanks, guys!

[@peterbutlien1335]

One of your best videos. I see a series coming - "performing various tasks in rear of a Brat."

[@karlmcnealjr]

My wife, RIP, had 1 of these when I 1st met her, no seatbelts at all in the back. I never had a chance to drive it because she bought a Sunbird convertible shortly after. I've driven many 4x4s over the years, including a 74 Wagoneer, 76 Landcruiser, 90 Suburban and a 69 F100 3/4 ton. The Landcruiser was unstoppable, stumps and big rocks on the side of a mountain in a logging camp in PA. 65mph was top speed unless you're going downhill, maybe 70 and the Ford at 55mph in 4-5" snow in a snow storm. Wagoneer was great but so many mechanical problems, trans. I drive an 03 Ram 2500 4 door long bed but don't go offroad like I use to. It's for delivering 2 pallets of parts for my customers. I might do some offroad when I retire this year. It's got 214k but it's well cared for.

[@bradleysargent9803]

Just watch the show "My Name is Earl". Great Patriotic Brat and neat how their kids rode in the back when it was raining. Great show :)

[@seanfritz1355]

We loved the BRAT. My Dad had one and absolutely had a blast in the jump seats. But like you said they where removed and lost to time. But while they where there they where fun. And my brother even put speakers in the side of the bed. You just have to be open to the experience. And look at all the fun you can really have.

[@darrellmellott6096]

My buddy bought one of those when I was a boy (50 years ago) when he had a contract with Canada Post to deliver mail to the Rural Routes. It was cheap, didn't burn a lot of gas and had all wheel drive. There wasn't much else at that time that ticked all those boxes.

[@simontemplar8682]

Believe it or not ' Subaru Brats were very popular during the late seventies. The back seats had 2 grab handles each, with just a lap belt. Check out the Subi commercial with the Brat on the Beach ... they were so much fun!

[@jackgilchrist]

It's hilarious watching modern kids trip out over this stuff. The only thing unusual about the Brat is it has seats and belts in the back. That would have been considered a safety feature in the '70s and '80s. It was very common for people, especially kids, to ride in the backs of pickups. And not only did we not have seats or safety belts, often we sat on the top of the bed wall and held on. Of course, we'd make the younger kids sit on the wheel wells or the spare... you know, for safety. 🙂 Back then we weren't just surviving, we were _living._ And it was great.

[@arrdubu]

Reminds me of the 90s when us kids would ride in the back of my friend's dad's Datsun pickup. No seatbelts let alone seats. I remember one time the brakes went out and we were way up a mountain. We had plans on how to bail if things went awry, but luckily there was enough snow on the side to use for corner braking along with the parking brake that we made it down safely.

[@DuneJeeper]

Loved watching y’all have so much fun with this one 🥤 😎 😎 🥤

[@RodShopDodgeColt]

I remember my parents buying our station wagon back in the day and there was a Brat in the showroom. We were playing in it and we were pretending that the jump seats were the gunner seats of the Millennium Falcon.

[@48Boxer]

I'm 48 and probably spent more time in the bed of a truck, on a package shelf or in the rear hatch than I did in an actual seat before I got my license

[@gordocarbo]

Same here...our 1st wagon didnt even come with seatbelts. We would stand up in the rear seat all the time. Rode minimikes with no helmets, drank from the hose bib, played football in the street. No kid ever started this "omg i dont feel safe" crap...they woulda been beat up

[@ayrproductions]

They sold these utes as the Brumby in Australia. And they only put those seats in the back for the US market. Riding in the back of utes was pretty popular here many years ago. My dad spent some time growing up riding in the back of his neighbour’s FE Holden ute which had a canopy on it (you referred to a canopy as a “topper” in this video) whenever my grandfather borrowed it to travel to Melbourne from the Victorian Goldfields, and I spent part of my childhood riding in the back of my dad’s Mazda B1800, and my daughter did spend part of her childhood riding in the back of my Ford XG Falcon ute, then my Ford BA Falcon ute in paddocks. It’s illegal to have anyone ride in the back of utes anywhere in Australia these days though. Also, that ute looks like it’s been painted in Upol Raptor, the worst thing you could paint any car with that isn’t used for hardcore off-roading.

[@JamesAllmond]

really? I'm in my 60's. We used to ride standing in the back of old pickups (with an FBI agent driving no less), we survived....and that with seats is way safer...safer is relative... You've never seen a Rumble Seat? Now THAT was dangerous. Uh, let me introduce you to my sidecar... 😎

[@MP-qn1jw]

Yup. Makes me wanna break out the lawn darts. I hate the government telling me what I can and can not do. Pussies.

[@WildhurstLodge]

You need some yellow helmets, and on the back paint KC, so your heads look like off road lights!!😂

[@ericlindauer7150]

I had one, mine came with a taller roll bar, and a camper shell was added... I cut the bottoms off the seats and left the backs in place.. that little piece of crap could hold WAY more than it appeared , dump run for a truck was like $8.75. Brat w/seats was $1.25... I added a skid plate, 4 wheeling.. who needs ground clearance when you have momentum. the newer Subi's don't even hold a candle to the amount of abuse the older ones could take. Thanks for memory

[@pontiffpope4967]

This is about the BEST vid EVER on TFL 😂. Kase is the best, and Tommy is SO good. This vid is wonderful out-of-the-box creativity. I QUITE enjoyed it. …AND, is Tommy sporting a wedding ring?

[@ryurc3033]

I was 11 or 12 and we went on a 4 hour road trip. Me and my best friend rode in the back of the truck the entire way to the campground. It was awesome.

[@Tinovodanovic]

Congratulations guys for making this video as well as for the courage, such a fun one to watch but I bet it wasn't so when it was being made.

[@raymilles]

I had a Brother in law that had one of these Brats when someone else was driving after a day canal surfing he was sitting in the back on 3 cased of beer and thrown out just after a curve getting back on to paved road taking a good tumble and hitting a road side marker. while at the hospital and getting a CT scanner he woke up thinking he was a filing cabinet.

[@mrsteve4313]

I'm the youngest of 7. The first new vehicle my Dad ever bought was a 1977 Dodge D100 regular cab. We all road in the back, I was only 5 at the time so most of the time I road up front with Mom and Dad but other times growing up, a lot of us road in the back and we weren't the only ones. But the box in a d100 is a heck of a lot bigger than that little brat.

[@efranklin85]

So when is there going to be a TFL show on one of the big networks. I’ve been following you guys since 2013 and I’m starting to get Top Gear vibes. It’s awesome! 👏🏼

[@spacecat7247]

Buddy of mine had one. Loved those Tail gunner seats. No seat belts and His weren't bolted down either lol Very cool.

[@diegosilang4823]

When I was a kid, I was standing at the back of a pickup truck in motion when I fell down to road and received some stitches to my head.

[@robwalker4548]

Until i graduated in 1975 I regularly rode in the back of a pickup. Even use to use to hold on to the tail gate chain to ski behind on Oklahoma dirt roads and I am still alive.