Yup, our station wagon seats would lay flat, 4 kids laid out in blankets for an overnight drive dad smoking all the way (and probably drinking) - we all survived
Lol. For a while my dad and stepmom had a ranchero. I remember me and my stepbrother in cotton sleeping bags in the back on top of all the camping gear heading for a trip to the mountains in fall. Freezing ass and trying not to fly out since we were basically the same level as the rail. It was so cold, lol.
I still miss the flip up rear facing death trap seats in the far back. That was our own world back there.