>> My dad's '60 Sunbeam Alpine came from the factory with seat belts. >> So did his '63 Ford Falcon van. > >That's weird, my sister's '65 Mustang doesn't have any seat belts.
Neither did my '66 Mustang when I bought it a few years ago, probably from about the 20th previous owner <g>. (My family was original owner of the Sunbeam and the Ford van). But the Mustang did have holes for the seat belt bolts, which were empty and open to the road under the car. I don't know if the Mustang had seat belts in these holes when the car was new. I put belts in after I bought it. My '71 bus had a lap and shoulder belt for the driver, and a lap belt only for the two other front-seat passengers (it's the only full-cabin bay-window non-walk-thru in captivity I believe). There were no belts for any of the rear seats, though both rear seats were in the car and seemed to match. There were holes in the floor for all seat belts, and I put in five sets of lap belts. They needed strange size metric bolt that I'd never seen on a VW before-- $3.50 each at a VW dealer. NOBODY else had these bolts. Steve Maher smaher@gi.com
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