In France they still drive around everywhere, especially in the south, where rust doesn't get them as quickly as in the Netherlands. My parents had a "normal" Renault 4, in which we could fit six (!) people. My little brother and I behind the back seat in the trunk, grandma and mom on the back seat and grandpa and dad in the front. Gear stick in the dashboard and a front bench instead of separate seats. So it could happen that I, as an 8-year-old, sat in the front seat without a seat belt and was allowed to accelerate.
I wish we had a van like this one, it would have been less cramped.
I came this close to not being involved in photography. My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic, with the biggest parallax error you could wish for! So I always had pictures of people without heads. I used these cassettes with 12 or 24 photos, black and white (that.. Read more…