Sometimes it's best not to see where you're going.

For those old enough to remember it, the Subaru BRAT is a glorious reminder of a simpler time in automotive history, an era in which the idea of bolting a pair of plastic lawn chairs into the open bed of a pickup truck might actually have made sense to someone other than a personal-injury attorney.

But as this recently snapped camera-phone photo shows, not everyone has been content to let the aft-facing, open-air riding style envisioned by Subaru product planners in the late '70s go the way of front drum brakes and points-style ignition systems.

Our favorite feature? The tie-down-strap-cum-seatbelt, presumably added to spare emergency workers the trouble of walking across the highway to retrieve the rider's corpse.

Photo by Eric Orban, a man who's owned multiple Subarus but, sadly, no BRATs.