Seat belt question

[Buick35]

We have a two year old grandson and I would love to take him to car shows.Trouble is my 35 doesn't have a way to install a car seat.What's the best way to install rear seat belts on a wood framed car? I think front ones would be more of a challange. I never used a car seat as a kid and I turned out alright.I remember lying on the rear package shelf!

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[Jim Nelson]

Hi ho,   I put seat belts in front of my 35-58,  fortunately there is enough steel  flooring to mount those.   Since you have a 4 door  35-41 sedan,  for rear belts,    you will have to mount seat belts  through the floor bottoms in back.   As I remember,  that area is wooden.   So you are going to make a 'new' steel cross brace to let you mount a rear seat belt.   A  1.5" x by. 1.5" x 1/4" angle running between the main frame will do the job.    Its strong enough to spread the load if you have an accident and keep the rear seat pax. secured.     Using a bigger angle  ie.  2 x 2 x  1/4" would be nicer.     You need  fit the angle between the main frame and WELD IT.   That way you would not minimize strength by drilling a hole in the frame.     IMHO,  I would do the  2x2x1/4 cross brace and maybe ....... put two  2x2x1/4 angles back to back.    (Creating a channel ).   You could get a 1-1/2" x 3 (or 4") channel to do the job.   I have a tendency to over kill something like this.    Having ONLY  front seat belts with out a shoulder belt leaves me cautious when  driving in my area.    I'm OK but it's the 'other guy' that will do me bad...       Just some thoughts from my wandering old brain.    

[alsancle]

Let the kid sit up front with you and drive cautiously.    If you get in a serious accident the belts are not going to help you or your grandson.

[Morgan Wright]

Get a rubber baby buggy bumper and put it on the floor in the back.

[edinmass]

It is NEVER safe to add seatbelts to pre war cars............

[trimacar]

1 hour ago, edinmass said:

It is NEVER safe to add seatbelts to pre war cars............

Agreed, no one wants to hear this though.  If a car isn’t engineered for seatbelts, then don’t install.  

[Morgan Wright]

But it helps to put the 2 year old in one of these

 

 

 

[trimacar]

The reality of engineering still applies.  Anchor a seat belt to frame of a car, strap an  infant or anyone in,  seat disconnects before seatbelt and crushes one.  You may feel better driving down road, but physics can still kill you or passenger.

[hidden_hunter]

12 hours ago, alsancle said:

Let the kid sit up front with you and drive cautiously.    If you get in a serious accident the belts are not going to help you or your grandson.

I have a kid that's a similar age and there isn't any way I'd let him sit up front in the jump seat in my Cadillac - too many interesting switches and knobs to play with as you're going down the road!

 

The drive way is about as far as he's going any time soon unfortunately 

 

Not even sure of the legalities of having him in the car on the road given it's illegal here to not have kids in a child seat until they're a certain age/height