Legality is one thing. But one thing is certain. I wouldn`t have anyone driving legally in the back or not. Subaru strove to revive the spirit of BRAT in 2002 when it launched a BRAT type vehicle called Baja (no capital letters as the name was not an acronym). Instead of four seats with both in bed, it had four doors, with the rear seats facing inward and forward. Subaru was among the first to apply the principle to a car, then to a truck. The BRAT was basically a Leone with a different body – just as a modern outback is fundamentally a raised legacy. And just like a modern Honda Ridgeline, it`s actually a one-bed Honda rider. “They just stuck these cheap plastic seats there to get through customs,” he said. “Only in the United States have they put this dangerous product on the market. It`s the stupidest thing I`ve ever heard of.

You cannot legally put folding seats on the back of an 86/87 and leave it as legal because the door jamb will indicate 2 passenger cars. Subaru was not “indifferent” to “safety”. Grab bars to prevent passengers from jumping out of bed have been included. However, clinging to it made it harder to reach a chill in the cooler. It was another fun thing people were doing in pickups back then — before the cult of security was betting on it as well. It depends on whether you like people vomiting on the back of your roast or not. I don`t know where you`re going with this Norman, but the mother-in-law sitting in the back could have been like the road to hell paved with good intentions. Has it ever occurred to you or anyone else why they were all exported to the United States? And why do you never see Chinese people eating the food (other than plain rice) they serve in their restaurant? I start from the same reasoning that they ship their waste products here. Now, a good point to think about Norman is, who or why would someone piss off $50 million or $800,000 for a car? Certainly more money than brain. The extra pair of seats not only helped Subaru avoid an odious tax. They made the BRAT much more practical as a minivan that could also carry things.

The extra seats in the rear also gave it a hoarse attitude that the more utilitarian compact pickups of the time couldn`t match. The BRAT was also stylish – a stark contrast to other import trucks of the time that weren`t. He borrowed themes from cars with beds, such as the Chevrolet El Camino and Ford Ranchero, which had C-pillars curved backwards and a car-shaped rake on their windshields. If you ride on a boy`s back, you vomit??? Not me. Yes, it`s legal, but your insurance won`t like it. It`s legally a passenger car, so yes, I think the laws say that if the car came with them (i.e. 85 or more roasted, not 86/87), the VIN door jamb plate says it`s a 4-passenger vehicle, and there`s not a single thing that says you can`t go back, with seat belts, of course. I disagree with Jim A, Ed H and Neil O.

$15,000 for an example of the least passenger vehicle, probably never sold in the United States, is cheap. Why not pay $15,000 for a vehicle with seats welded into the bed so that your passengers` heads are above the roofline? Or that had grip grips (and no seat belts) for your rear passengers so they wouldn`t fall/fall/fall/get ejected during acceleration when you were stupid enough to go back off-road? 14900 what???? $14900!!! 216000 miles. When did they legalize weed in Montana? Driving in bed became illegal, which effectively made the RAT illegal, or at least took away its characteristic selling point. Without the folding seats and the experience of driving backwards, the BRAT was just another small pickup, like the others. Thermally, I know, on my side of the river (WA side), the laws say that as long as all the seat belts are full, people can drive in the back of pickup vehicles without seat belts as long as they are 16 years old or older. A lawsuit accuses Subaru of America and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. of negligence in the location of passenger seats in the back of an open cargo area. Here`s a relevant link www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/topic/57466-70-ticket-for-passenger-in-brat-jump-seats/`it`s legal to let people ride in the back of a roast when it has seats and seat belts in Oregon. This explains why the Baja existed for only three years before being abandoned. While it wasn`t a bad vehicle (it shared its platform with the same outback car), it was nothing special.

Until 2002, all-wheel drive or 4WD, depending on your preference, was a common feature of many new cars, and many of them, including the Outback, also offered generous ground clearance and the ability to cross streams and roads without plowed roads. Back then, you could buy all sorts of things, and the Subaru BRAT was as different as it gets. The original seats and handles are long gone, but I`m curious if it`s still legal to install replacement seats and belts? They go up because the Bratz remote controller is sold to us all over the world, now the kids who had this remote controller are millionaires and they will spend everything to get their hands on a boy, they just try to find them agree Jim to a comment below. Over 216,000 miles and their question for $15,000. What a joke and insult to us in the car collector community. The seller must return to the field of facts. A 1983 Subaru Brat is the choice of the day. The truck is advertised on ClassicCars.com by a specialized dealer in Alsip, Illinois. Nathan Stevens, 18, was driving his 1980 roast. Joel Harris, 16, sat in front of Stevens. Echevarria lay in the back, in a seat behind the driver.

Steinbrecher said Subaru saved up to $100 million on the more than 80,000 roasts imported into the U.S. from 1978 to 1985 — when it removed the rear-facing seats. But that was in 1977 and the fastest car on the road that year was a 6.6-liter Trans Am with 200 horsepower, which, on a power per liter, wasn`t much more powerful than the Soobie`s 1.6-liter engine. BRAT, all in capital letters, was short for Bi-Drive Recreational All-Terrain Transporter. It superficially resembled other small imported pickups from the 70s, such as the Datsun 620 and similar models from Toyota (SR5), Mazda (B210) and Chevy (via Isuzu) in the wind. The “chicken tax” hit trucks with only two seats, which at the time were almost exclusively small import models. These models did not offer today`s usual configurations with extended and double cab. When he left the hospital the following March, Echevarria was almost completely paralyzed, said his mother, Patricia Echevarria, 43.

She said he could barely speak and couldn`t hold his head high. Once solid 145 pounds, it weighs only 86 pounds. In the early 80s, a second generation Targa-Top version was introduced. It also had other characteristics, such as: ; a spring-loaded hidden door for lateral walking in the loading area; and a spare tire under the hood. BRAT was a popular model for Subaru, but its days were numbered when the cult of security metastasized into a national religion. You are right. $15 Big is a lot. But asking isn`t always getting, but you never know. There is always someone who has a sentimental attachment to that particular vehicle.

By adding the extra seats in the bed, BRAT called itself a passenger car rather than a “light truck,” and so Subaru circumvented the chicken tax due to a happy formality. The automaker was also able to sell the BRAT at a lower price than other two-seater competitors who had factored the cost of the tax into their MSRP.