15 vintage car seat photos (and sarcastic captions too!)

was this on babble.com and thought you guys might be interested. http://www.babble.com/dad/oh-the-hu...House|100213|VintageCarSeats|Link|famM|Social

maybe classicseats, or someone else with knowledge of older vintage seats would have some info they'd like to share on any of the seats

Three Martini lunch one is a ford tot guard, the tennis racket one is a strolee wee care, and the rear facing is swedish late 60's?

the one with the steering wheel is a Dennis Mitchell.

The rear facing one looks pretty good.

They did the best they knew how with good intentions

one or two of those cars didn't even have seat belts for the adults

This one might be one of the Volvos that had a front passenger seat that could be turned RF, designed specially so that kids could go RF. Later on they decided that a separate child seat mounted on car's seat was a better idea after all.

HEVY said:

They did the best they knew how with good intentions

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that's exactly what I thought. in the 60s a lot of cars didn't even have seatbelts, my dad and his siblings traveled as infants in a laundry basket on the floor of the back seat, so I give these parents a lot of credit for getting their kids seats, even if they fall drastically short of our standards today, they chose to do something to do help keep their kids safer. I imagine some of those parents got slack for being "overprotective" or "car safety crazy" like some of us here do (at least I know I do)

The Ford Tot Guard "Three Martini Lunch" was actually a decent CR that delivered real crash protection - far superior to anything else on the market in the late 60's. It wasn't the same as other shield boosters and you can see the difference. Yeah, it looked weird but the engineers actually put some thought into this one.

jasminegrl said:

one or two of those cars didn't even have seat belts for the adults

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We were watching Mad Men recently and in the car when Betty was driving Sally to/from her boarding school interview I noticed the seat belts for the car appeared to be detachable - you could store them on the ceiling? In one shot one was hanging loose and flapping around behind Sally, in another shot you could see it neatly stored about Betty and above Sally for the drive home. Anyone know anything about this? I don't know if they were really like that back then or if they found a car someone restored and added seatbelts to in this fashion?

Here is a video clip - it is the drive home and sally's was no longer hanging, it was up on the ceiling.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/17/mad-men-sally_n_3454730.html

YinzerMama said:

We were watching Mad Men recently and in the car when Betty was driving Sally to/from her boarding school interview I noticed the seat belts for the car appeared to be detachable - you could store them on the ceiling? In one shot one was hanging loose and flapping around behind Sally, in another shot you could see it neatly stored about Betty and above Sally for the drive home. Anyone know anything about this? I don't know if they were really like that back then or if they found a car someone restored and added seatbelts to in this fashion?

Here is a video clip - it is the drive home and sally's was no longer hanging, it was up on the ceiling.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/17/mad-men-sally_n_3454730.html

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The early shoulder straps were separate from the lap belts and had there own female buckle just like the lap belts! There were two wire like clips on the headliner to store the shoulder strap when not in use. They were optional on cars for a few years until they became standard equipment.

classicseats said:

The early shoulder straps were separate from the lap belts and had there own female buckle just like the lap belts! There were two wire like clips on the headliner to store the shoulder strap when not in use. They were optional on cars for a few years until they became standard equipment.

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Wow, thanks! I showed my dad the video clip and he couldn't remember ever having seen that in a car.

My parents owned a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle and it had seat belts like that. The female end of the buckle was the adjustable side and the male end was longer so that the buckle landed in line with your belly button. The Shoulder belt was similar but its buckle ended at about your chest. To adjust porperly you were supposed to leave a fit width space between your sternum and the belt.

As a kid the crazy part for me was how many seat belts there were in the front seat. SO picture with me...from the passenger door side of the seat...
Male end of the belt (about 18 inches long. They often fell out of the car door and got wet in the rain) Moving towards the center of the car... female buckle for waist belt, female buckle for shoulder belt, female buckle for center belt. Moving towards the drivers side...male end for the center belt, female end for the drivers shoulder belt, female end for the drivers lap belt. And finally, at the drivers door side of the seat, male end of the lap belt.

That is eight things dangling from the seat bight. My dad was kind of OCD about arranging them so that the heavy buckle end hung just off the edge of the seat so they would stay in place.

My dad would only buckle the lap part unless he was on a long trip. Then he would fish the male part of the shoulder buckle from the metal clips on the ceiling and buckle that.

I was born in 1972 and this car lasted long enough for me to drive it. The seats were so old that I had to sit on a pillow to see over the steering wheel and I had to use both feet on the brakes because it did not have power brakes. But boy could it move!!!

I saw a t shield seat in the wild today. Sad