Rear seatbelts 64-66 barracuda

I wasn't a FABO member when I built the head rest and seat belt system for the rear passengers so I don't have pics of the building process. I bought a piece of 1/8" X 1 1/2" steel strap and bent it to just fit over the sides of the rear seat and also rise above the rear seat high enough to put a head rest on it. If you look closely at the first pic you can see the black metal strap through the rear glass and behind the strap you can also see the 1/2" plywood covered with interior material. Also in the second pic if you look closely you'll see a smaller metal strap I attached to the bracket and secured the smaller strap to the rear of the car. This extra strap is designed to help keep the top of the seat from going forward during an accident because there will be a lot of load pulling of the top of the seat with the shoulder type seat belts. Once the heavy strap was bolted to the stock rear seat bolts (on each side) I had a solid bracket onto which I could install a padded head rest, attach the upper shoulder seat belt slot and (just for fun) attach a 1/2" piece of plywood for my 2 10" speakers and 500 watts amps. You can see the seat belt reels mounted in the lower part of the large home made bracket. It took a little time to build and fit the heavy metal strap into the car so that it looks good but now I don't have to worry about my kids getting whiplash if I'm rear ended or bad injuries if someone runs a red light in front of me.
To tell you the truth non-mopar folks don't even know I made any modifications at all because it kinda looks like the car came that way!!! LOL!!



Treblig