I remember being arrested by two BIG policemen in a Mini in England in the sixties-my buddy and I were in the back-no restraints, screen or anything but there was no way we were getting out of that car until they did!
Not long after I had a job delivering fresh fish. We had a Mini pick up and I would put just enough fresh mackarel in the back so that it was on it's bump stops and then drive, without lifting, the sixty odd miles to the shippers. Like a roller skate!