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'63 Tempest Seatbelts
My car has none, not even for the driver. Never had any from what I can tell. There are no holes in the carpet.
Do these cars have factory mounting points or holes in the floorpan somewhere? I am looking for an original red set. |
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All the cars I've seen had factory holes for front seats.
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I know the the holes for the outside belts are on the inside of the door sill just behind the seat.They go in to the side not the floor.
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Thanks, I will take a closer look under the car.
This is the first car I have seen without factory belts. |
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All the floors had plates welded to them on the outside and if no seat belts were ordered, a rubber or plastic plug was installed from the interior.
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Great. Now I just need to find a set, in red.
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I have had Snakeole (bad spelling) make seat belts for 3 vehicles. Will send material samples.
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I need old original ones to match my original interior.
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If you ever need to have those seat belts actually work in order to save your life. It would be better to have Snake-oyl make you some new red ones. Any automobile seat belt that is more than 50 years old is probably not up to speck on it's tensile strength. Over time the light from the sun as well as the (seasons) summers and winters take their toll on any man-made fabric item, the actual webbing as well as the stitching. I found some really clean dark blue "GM logo" seat belts out of the back seat of a 1987 Cadillac in the auto salvage yard 2 summers ago. I am going to try those in my car. The Cadillac blue is very close to my interior color of 1963 Navy Blue. Plus I got to them within just 4 or 5 days of that car arriving into the yard. I remember the car, it was a big 4 door rear wheel drive full size Cadillac. It had not yet rained that whole week so the interior was still nice, no bad smells.
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Peter Serio Owner, Precision Pontiac |
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Can you post pictures of the seat belt buckles? Am in the same boat, no seatbelts in my '63 LeMans, but might be able to help.
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