Another oldie - Chrysler shield booster, 1973(?)

nisi

Senior Community Member
Here's a Chrysler shield booster I picked up at a thrift shop a couple years ago. The DOM was quite faded and difficult to read but best I could make out it said 1973.

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Here's the instructions. My favorite part is #6. Comfortable and relatively safe! What more could we ask ;)

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Here's a non-vehicle shot so you can see it better. It's one solid piece of molded plastic. Heavy, too.

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BookMama

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Wow! There's nothing like putting a dashboard right in front of your kid's face! :thumbsdown:

Thanks for sharing! I love seeing all these old car seat pics.:thumbsup:
 

canadianmom2three

Active member
WOW! That's disgusting.

I think for 1973 it is amazing - in the instructions it says to use in cars later than 1966, so for the times this was probably revolutionary. It actually looks really nice - easy to keep clean for sure;) and the instructions even say not to use with low seatbacks (although they do also say to stuff the extra space around the child with blankets and quilts:eek:) so I guess the fact that they acknowledge that the child is ready to go "comfortable and RELATIVELY safe" is far more true than they probably even realized...but for sure safer than the majority of kids were likely riding at the time. Thanks for sharing!!
 

jwren

New member
what seats did they use in 66? that's when I was born, my Mom and Dad have passed so I can't ask them, trying to go by photos and the only ones I have is my Mom holding me while Dad drives..memory is me in the back seat... but I can't remember how old I was..
 

Qarin

New member
1966, you were probably either in arms, or in a basket/bassinet on the floor.

My parents had 4pt harnesses installed in the backseat of our 1965 (the year i was born) pontiac tempest at some point, when my brother and i were, i don't know, 3 and 6? They were very forward-thinking!
 

jwren

New member
I think your right, somehow the floor keeps ringing a bell for me..:eek:;)
My mom's car was a comet back then...:)

1966, you were probably either in arms, or in a basket/bassinet on the floor.

My parents had 4pt harnesses installed in the backseat of our 1965 (the year i was born) pontiac tempest at some point, when my brother and i were, i don't know, 3 and 6? They were very forward-thinking!
 

Splash

New member
WOW! That's disgusting.

I think it's amazing. Remember, this is 30+ years ago, when child restraints were basically unheard of, especially for older children. It actually looks like it WOULD be relatively safe for an older child. And their instructions are great, telling you to keep tightening and making sure that the arms are indenting the back of the seat and that the kid has head support. I think it's great.
 

southpawboston

New member
to echo splash's comment, i think it's AWESOME that the car makers were providing SOME form of child protection back then, and this seat demonstrates that there were people concerned about CPS back then. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: at least they were way ahead of the curve, since most kids just got thrown in to the car without even a seatbelt. i can only imagine the poor kids (like myself) that just had the whole cabin to roam around in and whose parents *didn't* want to buy something like this.
 

BookMama

Senior Community Member
:ROTFLMAO:

I do agree with Splash though :)
Still funny. Engineers are not infallable(sp?).

OK, I was being a smart aleck before, but the truth is that this seat WAS awesome for its time. I was born in 1970 and while we always wore our seatbelts, I never had a child restraint of any sort, much less a booster for (what was considered in 1973) a bigger kid. And it's really not all that different from the overhead shield models that are still available today (though I hate those).
 

bbartlettnfld

New member
I rode in a ford tot guard. I remember using the massive sheild as a colouring table! My mother assures me it was the best of its time.

The best is the picture of my brother (born in '73) in his Dorel baby bucket (the one that looks like a plastic bath tub) in the back of a VW bug completly surrounded in boxes as my parents moved to Baltimore when he was 3 weeks old.
 

Kat_Momof3

New member
I see this as the grandfather of the Laptop.

if you removed the portion the child sits on, lowered the top to keep it away from the face, it's quite similar.

They gave good instructions for installing and to have ANYTHING able to be used over 40lbs back then was amazing, so I think they did pretty well considering the times.

Remember, they didn't even crash test CARS back then.

I think honestly that a child in that seat back in the 60s would have been safer than in the lap belt alone and certainly safer than unbuckled, but of course current seats are made much better.
 

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