So my brother just bought a 69 Impala convertible. We want to add 3 point seatbelts to it and it currently appears to be lacking any seatbelts. (car isn't here yet). It does have bucket seats already.
Does anyone have any good looking and comfortable suggestions for seats that have the seat belt built in?
I don't see any other way to have a 3 point seat belt setup.
The seats do need to lean forward to access the back couch.
The Chrysler Convertibles of many years both fold and have integrated belt.
You should seriously look at floor reinforcements if you use integrated seat belts. Loading the upper part of the seat puts a lot of torque on the bolts through the floor.
A lot of BMW convertibles have integrated belts. A lot of them I've dealt with are nice because the mounting surfaces are flat and even.
The latest SAAB 9-3 verts also had integrated seatbelts.
DeadSkunk said:You should seriously look at floor reinforcements if you use integrated seat belts. Loading the upper part of the seat puts a lot of torque on the bolts through the floor.
Came to say this, most seats (especially factory seats) are not all that strongly mounted to the car.
When I ran into a hidden concrete block with my Samurai on a jungle trail, which was a mild enough impact that my navigator thought I'd just intiated an impressively sharp brake and turn, it peeled up a strip of metal from where the navigator's seat mounts to the floor in the rear. That floor was rusty, but still...
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