70s/80s seats

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Horse_Apple

Horse_Apple

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Seeing as these seats have the seat belt integrated into the seat itself, how safe are they in the event of a crash?

The leverage that would be applied down the back of the seat in such an event would put enormous strain on not just the fixings of the seat base to the car but also the pivot point of the seat itself.
 
This particular design went through very strict and strenuous tests as it was practically unheard of until Land Rover did it in the RR....

It was used to allow better access to the rear seats in the 2 door model....

At first the authorities were dubious, but Land Rover strengthed the mounting points of the belts and the seat box and rails.....

I have a very interesting book on the design and developement of the Range Rover, and I was quite intrigued by this part so read it well.....

Kinda odd you bring it up...>!!!
 
Thanks for the snippet.

The reason is that I have a set of early 80's seats in my 1972 2 door but I also have access to what are basically a set of CSK front seats, so the more modern Rangie design.

I was very aware that the original design was to prevent the obstruction of a traditional seat belt machanism but the design just looked ultimately dangerous in a bad crunch as I just can't see the seats not coming away with that amount of leverage from top to bottom being applied and magnifying the force of the decceleration.

So, I'm weighing up the 2 options. Obviously, with the CSKs and the post 87 export 2 doors they used traditional pillar mounted belts so they can't have been that intrusive and restrictive?
 
The belts don't exactly look intrusive here:

CIMG4272.JPG
 
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