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Car seat trivia

[Today’s run: 2.3 miles]

Shortly after we were married we bought a Jeep Cherokee. It was a 4-door, 4-wheel drive, with a standard transmission. That model of car had come out a couple of years earlier and got a lot of good reviews. We checked it out and bought one.

I believe ours was an 1987. I am not 100% sure of that. I know we had it in early 1987 but I’m not sure exactly when we bought it.

Anyway, the reason I’m bringing this up is because it had a strange feature in the front seats. We were talking about operator seating with a couple of guys at work and I was reminded of it.

Most driver seats in cars have an adjustment to move closer and farther from the steering wheel. They also have the ability to tilt the upper part of the seat rearward, effectively changing the angle between the lower and upper parts.

This model Jeep for a few years had a seat with a lever on the front that you could use to rock the whole seat. The angle didn’t change; the back went back and the front came up, like in a rocking chair. I really liked it. It was very comfortable.

But they only went with that in the Cherokee for a few years. We sold that car after about a year. By the time a later 1998(?) came into the family it only had the boring normal controls.

I had remembered this rocking feature and did some google searching and there is surprisingly little mention of it on the internet.