[DeTomaso] 72 Seat belts

[JDeRyke at aol.com]

To my knowlege, the '71-72 uses two piece seatbelt/shoulder harnessses 
while the '73-74 actually had a one-piece belt/shoulder harness with a retractor 
for the shoulder harness built into a recess in the rear firewall. So this 
is not a popular mod that requires cutting a hole in early cars. I 
personally like having the choice of either connecting, or not, the shouder strap(s) 
with the stock setup.

As for groping around to find the ends, last year I added seat-belt holders 
made from plastic Ford pickup belt-holders. When trimmed with a jacknife, 
these work just fine to position the latch at the edge of the Pantera's 
seats, fit well with only a bit of fiddling using all stock mounting bolts and 
look good. Finally, a late '80s/early '90s Ford pickup extended-cab has seat 
belts for the rear jump-seats that perfectly replace worn or broken Pantera 
seat belt latches. The illustrated article on all this was in the May '08 
POCA Newsletter. Cheers- J Deryke


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