About Evike.com: For over a decade, Evike.com Inc. has been a leading distributor, innovator, showroom, social media, and developer of Airsoft training equipment. Evike.com is also the exclusive representation, service center, key distributor, and maker of a majority of premier Airsoft brands for the sporting, training, and commercial markets.
Illustration of rumble seat, c. 1913. Roadster, coupe and cabriolet auto body styles were offered with either a luggage compartment or a rumble seat in the deck. Models equipped with a rumble seat were often referred to as a sport coupe or sport roadster.
The use of seat belts in automobiles did not begin in earnest until the mid to late 1950's. Even then, seat belts were considered optional equipment. In 1955, famous actor James Dean died in a spectacular two-vehicle crash in the Southern California desert, which he likely would have survived had he been wearing a seat belt. History was made.