3 point seat belt, '63 wagon

Being a Swedish citizen, living in Volvo land, I am aware of car safety. In fact, our whole country is fixated with safety of all sorts...

That said, I am looking at the solution Volvo has. In their models wagon models - 945, V90 and so on - all belts comes over the seat top (see picture below).

I will use three point belts and the really sturdy back seat frame together with welded thick plates on top of it/behind. Where the upper anchor will be placed. Then I can adjust angles and so forth. As long as the kids are short, that will do. Nobody in the car will ever survive a head on collision with a modern car anyway, but since we travel in the big cities most of the time, the speed is in general low to moderate. And the Dart is not our daily driver.

Last year, 270 people out of 10 million died the traffic in our country. That includes drunk people, bicycle accidents, suicide, pedestrians... There is still a risk, but also being seriously injured, but it's low. My guess is that a lot of motorsports, horse riding, hockey and so on has a bigger potential to get rid of the kids...


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