Seat Belt Buckles - I'm your Huckleberry

It's been a while since I redirected or posted here

2010-12-07T04:13:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since I last used this blog, but now there is a reason to crank up this old engine and put the seatbelts on, literally. I'm redirecting my web design efforts to blogging and my seatbelt belt inventory of belts with car seatbelt buckles is the subject du jour. Basically I am going to be posting pictures, and comments regarding seatbelts and the cars they go in on a brand by brand basis, under a specific blog for each type of car. The list of cars match my seatbelt belt selection and are:
Acura
Airplane
Chevrolet - Chevy
Corvette
Cadillac
Chrysler
Dodge
Ford Logo
Ford Trucks
GM General Motors
Honda
Hummer
Lincoln
Jeep
Mustang
Nissan
VW Volkswagon
and Viper
some that didn't make the cust are the Ford Starburst and Titan.

Combine blogs and web design for Seatbelt Belt websites

2010-12-06T09:10:00.000-08:00

I have reviewed my collection of seatbelt belts and am going to combine my blogging and webdesign based on each vehicle type and belt style. I've just spent the afternoon and morning setting up wordpress websites to host the main part of each blog and now I am going to do the same in blogger to complete a challenge and see which system I prefer. Buckle up.

Seat Belt Buckles and Belts - Mission: Make a '62 Chryler Seat-belt Safe

2008-06-29T13:38:00.000-07:00

I have an old car and low and behold I've made it to June 2008 with having seat belts in it. The funny thing is that I sell seat belt buckle belts like the ones shown here. Many of them are actual vintage recycled buckles from the old cars like GM and Cadillac, but some are new novelty type buckles that are exact models of the real seat belts. Over the years I've even accidentally sold a few of these to people who wanted seat-belt buckles or belts for their car and they've been surprised to find out that they are for wearing, not just to save your life. I've even gotten a couple of seat belt tickets in the past for violating seatbelt laws and I've since paid my debt for those crimes to society.

So after years of storage and a variety of mechanical work, my '62 Chryler 300 is ready to be back on the road, just in time for the gas crisis, and made street legal. Currently there are no seat belts in this car and it's never had them. I joke that wearing a belt while driving this car may get me out of a ticket, but it definitely won't save my life, so that won't be my solution. Also, unless I put seat belts in this car I won't be able to drive around with my kids and show them how much fun it is to have people point at your car and yell things like, "cool car".

I'm starting this blog to chronicle the trials and tribulations of finding and installing seat belts into this vintage car myself. I've been hesistant to try and do it in the past worrying about how and where I would need to drill into the car to install seatbelts, but there's no more time left to be uncertain about this. I'll post links and information, as well as, do some research on seat belt history and legsilation, which is relevant to the fact that I have to do this, so stay tuned to learn all you'll ever need to know about seat belts as you follow my steps at making this car safe for the next century.