foxlovescars

I have a deluxe interior in my '70 442 with silver-faced seatbelt buckles. The two front seat belt clips and buckles are smaller than the both shoulder belts clips and buckles, AND the rear seat belt clips and buckles.


Is this correct or has a previous owner made a change? The front seat belt retractor cover is regular size as you can see in the attached picture.


Thanks,
Frank
Troy, VA

Fun71

That is the way my '70 Supreme belts were. I guess the non-ratcheting belts used the larger buckles.

foxlovescars

Thanks for the response. Anybody else what to join in?

68442

Check the date tags on those belts. The small buckle belts started in 72

oldspackrat

I have seen the small buckle belts is some '71s.

foxlovescars

68442:
Great idea! I checked the data tag on the belt and it says,
"35 E 69"
so I guess they were at least being made prior to the construction of my car, but I'm still not sure if they are correct for my model.


Thanks for the inut,
Frank

Fun71

I think there were different styles of lap belts and buckles before '72.

One version had a a small buckle and used a retractable/ratchet adjustable outboard belt and a fixed inboard belt.

Another version had a large buckle and used a retractable-only outboard belt and the inboard buckle had a slide adjuster.

My '70 Supreme hardtop had the small buckle retractable/ratchet adjustable lap belts and the shoulder belts were the large buckles with slide adjusters, as were the rear seat belts. These were the nickle/silver Deluxe style belts.

My '71 convertible originally had large buckle retractable/slide adjusting lap belts up front (black buckles) and I didn't like them as much as the belts on my '70 so I changed them to year-correct small buckle retractable/ratchet adjustable belts (black painted buckles).