Re: Seat Belts?

[Bob Fortson <bobt1885@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Robert...Fitted belts in the rear of my 63 Fury
'vert.  I used "of the period" new belts and anchor
bolts (available from many vendors...some much cheaper
than Juliano's...seems to be same stuff)...I also used
an anchor plate on the bottom side that I had
fabricated about 3" X 3" with proper size hole...I
simply passed the bolt thru and torqued.

The key thing is to see where the type belts that you
buy want to go to properly restrain...then mark the
close approx. spot from the inside of the car...BUT
DON"T DRILL YET!!!!!Get your mate (or brother) to help
yo make sure you are not drilling brke lines, fuel
lines, etc.....we found it best to drill some holes
from the topside down and some from bottom up to avoid
those things that shouldn't be drilled !
FYI...Installed 3 belts in the rear seat and used the
the two inside (nearest the tunnel)bolts for double
duty...I have an engineer friend that looked over my
plates and the supplied eye-bolts and and pronounced
them fit for double duty... he did suggest avoiding
head ons at over 65 or so if doing threesomes in the
rear...duhhhhhh.
Any help here ?

Bob Fortson 
--- Robert <r.lane@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi again
> Another question...
> Has anyone out there fitted rear seat belts to a 63
> Dodge (or similar - I presume there will be other
> years of both Dodge & Plymouth b-bodies that have
> the same/similar floor pans)?
> We had our back seat out for the first time last
> week to get the rear panels off to send to SMS for
> resto (but that's another story!), and looked to see
> if there was anywhere obvious to mount rear seat
> belts. There wasn't. I know Julianos
> http://www.julianos.com/catalog.html also sell
> anchor plates which should make a neat installation
> wherever they're fitted, but I was wondering if
> anyone knows the best place to locate the fixings?
> Were rear seatbelts ever fitted in these cars at the
> factory or at the dealerships?
> 
> Any help gratefully received, as ever.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Robert
> 63 Polara 500
> England
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
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> 
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