On HotI's point, my mum ripped the front passenger seat out of her mini and drove me around in my bassinet when I was a newborn
My folks a cotton netting thing that went over the cane basket that the baby travelled in -and that was considered safe as! I remember ducking down in the back of the station wagon becasue we had too many kids and not enough seat belts. No boosters or car seats at all. And we were ducking to avoid a fine from the police, not for any reasons of safety. THose were the days....