Hauling kids in your classic cars

[markinnaples]

Right Mark. Sadly, a few years ago we had a local guy and his son do the HR Power Tour in his dad's beautiful newly restored '69 Camaro get hit by an idiot who tried to pass a car coming in the other direction and hit them head on. The father died. Not sure any kind of restraint would have saved the dad or stopped the son from being injured.

[sixt9rsx33]

I agree with the calculated risk comment. As compared to new cars our classics are just not comparatively safe.
When my daughter was a baby I would put her in my 67 Vette and strap the car seat in with the lap belt. When my second daughter came along 15 months later I would strap both of them in the Vette with the lap belt. At this point they were 3 and 4 years old. This was in the late 90's. I basically just drove around town at around 35 mph, but still it was a risk.

[earntaz]

Originally Posted by sixt9rsx33

I agree with the calculated risk comment. As compared to new cars our classics are just not comparatively safe.
When my daughter was a baby I would put her in my 67 Vette and strap the car seat in with the lap belt. When my second daughter came along 15 months later I would strap both of them in the Vette with the lap belt. At this point they were 3 and 4 years old. This was in the late 90's. I basically just drove around town at around 35 mph, but still it was a risk.

Wife and I had a 63' Corvette rag top -- put the baby seat in the rear somewhat between the seats above the storage area ...

[427TJ]

When my son was not yet two I took him for a ride in my '67 L35 Camaro. When the coast was clear I stood on it at about 50 mph and roared up to about 90, the Q-jet induction making that classic WHOOM sound. As soon as I let off he shouted, "AGAIN! AGAIN!" Still chokes me up a little to this day.

His seat had a harness so the rear lap belt held the seat in place. He could see really well too and he wasn't used to that.

[Zedder]

My son was about 3 when I took him out in my Silver Z06. I let it go on the on-ramp to the highway and we got moving pretty well. I slowed down and looked over at him and said. "What do you think about Daddy's Corvette?" He replied, "I wish it was Red"...

[ssl78]

I guess this is not the right way his first ride up and down the block

[JKZ27]

Got the rear shoulder belts in my gold car today.

[Lynn]

Very cool. My 7 year old grandsons (identical twins) keep asking for a ride in the 69 Z/28. So far, I have only taken them around the block buckled up in the front seat. I would feel much better having them in the back seat, with seat belts AND shoulder harnesses while in their booster seats. Originality be damned in this case.

How about a tutorial on how you mounted everything. Leave no detail uncovered or tards like me will screw it up.

P.S. SSL78, don't be offended, but that will get you arrested these days in most States. Of course, as I mentioned two pages ago, it is still legal to transport the little buggers in school buses without restraints. Strangely, because of grandfathering (not me, the law) I can take my little ones for a ride in the old limo without restraints, because it didn't come with them.

[JKZ27]

Lynn, I still have to put the set in my silver car so maybe I'll remember to actually take some pictures of the mounting plates I made. Otherwise, there really isn't much to engineer since GM offered this set up in the first gen cars and there are some nice details outlined in the Fisher body manual as well as Kurt's report on seat belts over at CRG.

http://www.camaros.org/seatbelt.shtml

I did have the belts made after I measured out what I wanted.

[JRC99]

Hell, I rode in the back seat from age 5 to 10 or 11 in both the Camaro, the Chevelle, and the '63 Fairlane we had for a couple years. None of them have/had rear belts. Bonus: The Fairlane didn't even have lap belts in the front. That car was a massive turd. And I miss it, a lot.