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!

[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?

[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

[55chevy]

I remember when I was growing up my first real memories of riding in my parents car was when my Mom had a '68 Malibu 4 door and my dad had a '74 Maverick 4 door (three on the tree baby). And I OWNED the back seats in whichever car I was in.. It was my little world. I could lay on the seat.. hunker down on the floor.. climb up on the package tray for a min (before getting yelled at) but usual position was standing up and hanging over the back of the bench seat. Then Mom traded in for a brand new 77 Subaru and that baby had bucket seats where I could usually be found filling the gap between them while riding down the road. I also remember when I was little I would spend alot of time with my Grandpap riding around in the '73 Chevy Pickup he had. My place in Paps truck was standing on the floor in the passenger corner of where the dash met the door. Usually I had 2 younger cousins along when I was with my Pap or my Gram.. We all would go places with Grandma and she always drove Plymouth Fury Station Wagons. Of course the back cargo area was the ONLY place to be in that car being a little kid.

I'm 32 now and I'd wager a guess that probably 95% of you guys grew up riding in cars the same way I did. I now have a daughter who is almost 2. Isn't it funny how those of us who grew up the way we did, how very anally protective we are about our own kids riding in cars these days.. even when WE, as professionals, are driving? Just like all of you guys, now I strap my little girl in with a 5 point harness child seat securely positioned in the center back seat of my Nova. But I still remember when I was little and how much fun that freedom in a car was at that age and when I take my daughter to her mothers place, if it's after dark I'll let my girl ride up front with me since we only go about a mile and don't exceed 25mph doing it on the urban streets here. And she just thinks that's the greatest thing in the world riding up front beside Dada. But if it's daytime or we're going anywhere else she gets buckled in.. They hand out hefty fines these days for not having your kid in a proper child seat. Oh I miss the good 'ol days..

[Belair62]

Brought back memories...my Dad always had a 3 or 4 year old Caddy...we used to sleep in the footwells of the back seat !!!! The trans tunnel was our pillow....

[Mr70]

Okay...Now it all makes sense.