Taking kids in your Muscle Car???

[Zedder]

Thanks for the reply 427TJ. I guess we all have our own levels of comfort when it comes to this sort of thing and yes, the odds are in your favor that things "might" not happen. However, running a manufacturing company I have learned that "anything" is possible and wherever I can use modern technology to my advantage when it comes to safety I usually do so.

As for the car seat in the front seat, I would put it in the rear just for that extra measure of safety - especially with the metal dash on a '67. My guy is too big for a car seat now, so he has to use a booster seat and the vehicles belts.

Ride safe!

[Mr70]

I'd stick with your Idea.

[njsteve]

Anyone remember the kids car seats of the 1960s? They used to have two big metal hooks that you hung the kiddy seat over the car's bench seat: That was all that held it in the car. Kinda like the old drive in theatre speaker that hung over your window. It's amazing any of us are alive today!

[indycamaro]

Chevrolet child seat from 1969

[Salvatore]

Hey Rick, Is that Ralph Nader in that picture?

[Keith Tedford]

1969 Chevelles also have the holes in the parcel shelf for the shoulder belt setup. They were an option seldom ordered. Properly belted into one of these cars the little ones should be almost as safe as in a new car.

[Mr70]

Yes Sam,it is a 1977 demonstration he did,to show how SAFE airbags would be.
HERE'S THE STORY

[427TJ]

By the way, my son's car seat has a full shoulder-lap-chest restraint, not just a single belt. I also put the seat all the way aft. If we were in an accident bad enough to cause him to hit the metal dash, it probably wouldn't have mattered how he was strapped in, you know what I mean?