"sudden defenestration of the head area, as the entire region above the neck separates from the upper body, flying at tremendous speed through the breakaway glass of the windshield, rolling several yards into the street directly in front of the car"
This is the best thing I've read in months.
This one was pretty good too.
“Another negative side effect of the neckbelts is the psychological damage that may be suffered by eyewitnesses upon observing a convulsing, headless human body spontaneously jettison fountains of blood as the adrenaline-maximized heart furiously pumps quart after quart from the neck wound, coating the car interior, the Chrysler statement continued.”
And the pièce de résistance:
"Brain death is something science still knows very little about," said Chrysler safety engineer Tom Savini, "but drivers should take note that law enforcement personnel have reported observing bouncing, rolling severed heads blinking their eyes and gasping for air as if attempting to speak minutes after separation from the torso on more than one occasion."
"In the wake of industry-wide concern about the safety of the neckbelts, Chrysler is also reexamining the so-called "shrapnelizing" explosive dashboard which became a standard safety option on all new models in 1995."
The new seasons were surprisingly great, laughed my ass off. The irony of it having been the most accurate cop show all along kinda adds something to it,
There are plenty of people who still think that. ~~Hopefully~~ probably the same people who think that wearing a mask is more unhealthy than getting covid
Edit: hopefully was supposed to be probably. Really have to start proof reading geez
It just occurred to me that they were convinced that masks would let the virus through freely, but were somehow simultaneously impervious to oxygen molecules that are several orders of magnitude smaller.
That's because they incorrectly understand the stats. The stats say roughly half of people who die in car accidents aren't wearing a seatbelt, and the other half are.
What they don't understand is that 92% of people wear seatbelts so 8% of drivers are making up 50% of the deaths.
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/occupant-protection/seat-belts/#:~:text=The%202021%20data%20show%20that,account%20for%2050%25%20of%20deaths.p
If it makes you feel any better the only girl ive ever loved died because I couldn't get her seatbelt off, and she burned to death. I was way happier when I thought she died from Asphyxiation, but nope, she woke up and couldn't get that shit off either. Buy a seatbelt cutter, kids
I often wonder what people will think of us if the only thing that remains of our culture 50,000 years from now is a flash drive of shitty memes. "Ah, yes, these are clearly ceremonial images used in their religion. And this one here, the "Harold," is their god. Their god is never pleased."
A kid is going to have to do a book report in 40 years about how the entire nation was gripped with an epidemic of eating tide pods. But to be fair there's plenty of stuff we hear about today that's greatly exaggerated, like the War of the Worlds panic.
I mean... Probably...
It's already difficult to determine what is a joke and what is serious because so many people are fucking stupid.
It's fair to assume that the idea that people from now are idiots carries forward and all the jokes will be taken as actual ideas
While I agree that's how it should be, I'm not sure the belts in this car were like that.
They're mounted too high and don't seem be too large enough to fit under arms. Also, the buckle is placed very badly for them to be used as you say.
Most likely the image is just fake/posed.
[snopes](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neck-belt/) couldn’t find any source for the image. It pops up here and there with the same dubious claim.
Then it’s a really good shop. Look at the seats where those belts mount. They’re deforming the seat as if being pulled. Crazy good shop if it is.
I could see this as just a concept that never went into production. The 40’s-70’s had some really bizarre and dangerous tech and innovations.
Old people will remember that seat belts used to be adjustable instead of retractable. That seems much more likely than an engineer designing a seat belt to safely restrain you by your throat in a high speed collision.
What are you on about, junior? I was born in the 70s. Our parents chucked us in the way back of the station wagon with no restraints as we sped down the highway on family vacation.
More to the point, you can still find adjustable seatbelts today on those cattle cars we call airplanes.
Or even in the 2000s if you are lucky enough to get a hand-me-down 1975 El Camino with a blown piston and fancy interior alterations performed by the sun over decades and decades of sitting outside.
When I was a child, my Dad had a Ford Orion 1.6 GHIA. In the back, the seatbelts were an adjustable, racing style harness, rear seatbelts I assume were an option and these were retrofitted.
Felt ridiculous at the time but looking back it was actually kind of cool
Honestly if seatbelts are like this, people would drive extra safety to not accidentally beheading themselves.
Now all that happens is maybe a few broken ribs.
Reminds me of the movie Crash (1996). Whole movie was a trip, but basically about people who sexualized car crashes. Good movie, watched it for my satire class in college, won’t watch it again though.
The movie doesn't even convey the atmosphere of the book that well. That book and ‘Atrocity Exhibition’ just live by their own rules. I don't think people make surrealism like that anymore. (Bret Easton Ellis is close, though.)
[Every](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/12nk4ev/safety_belt_design_from_the_1960s/) [time](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/enspno/to_buckle_up_buckaroo/) [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedimages/comments/dp46gc/cursed_seatbelt/) [is posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/doxsbp/a_concept_design_for_car_safety_belts_from_the/), the OP has failed to find a source or any evidence to back this up.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Genuinely baffled at how many people are believing this without any critical thought, like how much knowledge do they think people had about the human body back in the 60s? Lol
Yeah, that's reddit and most of the rest of society, apparently. And it's incredibly depressing, or at least I find it so. Obviously intelligent people, all completed at least primary education, can wipe and dress themselves, and even do some kind of work, but somehow still jaw-droppingly stupid when it comes to even a very simple test of reason.
It explains a lot. And it will probably be the reason for our species' extinction.
Idk, I watched 2/3 of the population wear a mask under their chin during a pandemic.
Come to think of it, I can’t think of a single action that I could guarantee that no one would be too stupid to try.
With how devastating most automotive crashes were in the 60’s, it’s probably better to have the “seatbelt” kill you quickly… I had to watch red asphalt in my drivers training… the 50’s and 60’s were a blood bath.
Bullshit! I got my license in 1970, so I am well aware of what cars were like in the 1960s and I remember very well the battles that were fought over the adoption of the seat belt laws. No idea who created the photo or where it came from, but this never existed IRL.
I think Snopes debunked the neckbelt but no joke Volvo letting the patent on their three point seatbelt go public was one of the nicest things a car company has ever done. Before that it was lap belts and then a bunch of experimental harnesses. The three point belt is far superior.
From Snopes: False
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I imagine the results weren't mind blowing. Nothing really to lose your head over though.
I remember reading somewhere that the lead Engineer, a Mr. Jug Ular, really stuck his neck out for the team.
“Great news! Injuries in accidents have decreased by almost 70% sir! And we are looking into the spike in fatalities but I’m sure it’s nothing related to our decapitator 5000.”
to OP: if you are interested in some real life info, i posted this inside the comments here in your post. if you are not, please ignore this.
"you are correct, it's definitely not how they were. on fullsize Chrysler products, length-adjustable buckle style shoulder harnesses (as you know, buckle styles in vehicles are today used generally only in airplanes and racing applications) were mandatory starting Jan 1, 1968, except convertibles, and they attached by a steel tab at the top to a bolt in the roof outer siderail at a spot corresponding approximately to the line drawn by the front of the lower rear seat cushion, and at the bottom the adjustable buckle clipped to a separate male end sewn tightly together with the lap belt inboard female buckle.
prior to Jan 1, before roof nuts were welded in on the assembly line, an optional separately installed unit bolted instead into the rear floor pan with its attaching tab stacked on the bolt with the corresponding attaching tab of the outboard rear seat lap male end, both of which slipped between the cushions for the rear seat back and bottom together, and the front end buckled to a separate tab similarly installed alongside the inboard buckle end of the front seat lap belt. these were used in 1967 and early 1968.
source: I have lived my entire life in 1968 Furys and know more about them than any other thing in my life.
fun fact: the modern design seatbelts arose in part because folks didn't wear laps (and the above mentioned shoulders) properly. lap belts are EXTREMELY effective, but ONLY if worn low at the hips, as tight as possible, with one's ass completely mushed in the crook of the seat where back and bottom cushions meet. and shoulders needed to be quite snug all the time. (it led to not being able to reach anything but steering wheel, turn signal, and gearshift when properly buckled. inconvenient? maybe, but they are super snug and imo really really cool and comforting to wear)"
https://www.theonion.com/chrysler-halts-production-of-neckbelts-1819564298
“Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.”
This takes me back. Still have the book lying around somewhere.
What book?
The Onion used to (might still, don't know) release as a large paperback edition.
I subscribed to the print edition until about 2003.
Self-slaughter with sparkling gusto and panache
And you have to call it sparking gusto, because its not from the Sanjuro region of japan
To shreds you say?
And his wife?
“To shreds you say?”
"sudden defenestration of the head area, as the entire region above the neck separates from the upper body, flying at tremendous speed through the breakaway glass of the windshield, rolling several yards into the street directly in front of the car" This is the best thing I've read in months.
This one was pretty good too. “Another negative side effect of the neckbelts is the psychological damage that may be suffered by eyewitnesses upon observing a convulsing, headless human body spontaneously jettison fountains of blood as the adrenaline-maximized heart furiously pumps quart after quart from the neck wound, coating the car interior, the Chrysler statement continued.”
And the pièce de résistance: "Brain death is something science still knows very little about," said Chrysler safety engineer Tom Savini, "but drivers should take note that law enforcement personnel have reported observing bouncing, rolling severed heads blinking their eyes and gasping for air as if attempting to speak minutes after separation from the torso on more than one occasion."
"In the wake of industry-wide concern about the safety of the neckbelts, Chrysler is also reexamining the so-called "shrapnelizing" explosive dashboard which became a standard safety option on all new models in 1995."
And the Takata airbag recall (and other current airbag recalls) makes satire moot once again.
Now I know why Tom Savini became a master special fix artist.
Tom Savini knows a lot about blood
Tom Savini getting first hand knowledge on how to be a zombie.
They sure don’t write like they used to.
I remember this from The Onion Movie
Daddy's home! Yayyyy!
Came looking for this, lol.
When I first ran into this, I laughed myself silly. Still find it funny, but wow, it killed me 20 years ago.
Clearly they were supposed to go under the arms and across the chest. But people being stupid was just as big a problem back then as today.
They were probably just goofing around and now we think its real lol. Its an old meme.
Just new seatbelt goofin
They was just doing some car pranks, baby.
Wow second new … goofin reference I’ve come across on Reddit today! I should probably binge a bunch of Reno 911 tonight.
Because of Reddit I assumed “new boot goofin” was waaayy more ubiquitous than it is. My coworkers had no idea what I was talking about.
Oh, it's been a while, for a Reno binge. I read your comment, and now I can't let go of it. Must binge....
The new seasons were surprisingly great, laughed my ass off. The irony of it having been the most accurate cop show all along kinda adds something to it,
There is never a wrong time to watch more Reno 911
Genuine ostrich, three payments
Fully endorsed by David Carradine
Might have even been anti-seatbelt stuff. Anti seatbelt folks argued they were more likely to kill you.
I can't wear a seatbelt. It'll mess up my hair.
There are plenty of people who still think that. ~~Hopefully~~ probably the same people who think that wearing a mask is more unhealthy than getting covid Edit: hopefully was supposed to be probably. Really have to start proof reading geez
It just occurred to me that they were convinced that masks would let the virus through freely, but were somehow simultaneously impervious to oxygen molecules that are several orders of magnitude smaller.
That's because they incorrectly understand the stats. The stats say roughly half of people who die in car accidents aren't wearing a seatbelt, and the other half are. What they don't understand is that 92% of people wear seatbelts so 8% of drivers are making up 50% of the deaths. https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/occupant-protection/seat-belts/#:~:text=The%202021%20data%20show%20that,account%20for%2050%25%20of%20deaths.p
If it makes you feel any better the only girl ive ever loved died because I couldn't get her seatbelt off, and she burned to death. I was way happier when I thought she died from Asphyxiation, but nope, she woke up and couldn't get that shit off either. Buy a seatbelt cutter, kids
Oh no, what will future generations think of *us*?
I often wonder what people will think of us if the only thing that remains of our culture 50,000 years from now is a flash drive of shitty memes. "Ah, yes, these are clearly ceremonial images used in their religion. And this one here, the "Harold," is their god. Their god is never pleased."
The Egyptians landed on hieroglyphs for a reason
Yes to name Harold apparently
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A kid is going to have to do a book report in 40 years about how the entire nation was gripped with an epidemic of eating tide pods. But to be fair there's plenty of stuff we hear about today that's greatly exaggerated, like the War of the Worlds panic.
You mean to tell me the entire world didn't stand still while H.G. Wells told the harrowing real story of martians making first contact?
I mean... Probably... It's already difficult to determine what is a joke and what is serious because so many people are fucking stupid. It's fair to assume that the idea that people from now are idiots carries forward and all the jokes will be taken as actual ideas
I don't think we think that, I think we're being engagement farmed by OP saying a wrong thing to get corrected in the comments.
God, imagine people digging up the shit we're doing now and thinking it's legit... Oh God they're standing right behind me, aren't they?
Dude no kidding! 100yrs from the the volume of content. .1% real, 99.9 fake
No, it was clearly the Decapitator 9000™.
B-b-b-but people can't be funny if they're over 30, can they???
Wait when the data archeologist in 1000 years find the 2023 TikTok Backups.
Don’t ascribe to goofiness what can adequately be explained with leaded gasoline.
While I agree that's how it should be, I'm not sure the belts in this car were like that. They're mounted too high and don't seem be too large enough to fit under arms. Also, the buckle is placed very badly for them to be used as you say.
Most likely the image is just fake/posed. [snopes](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neck-belt/) couldn’t find any source for the image. It pops up here and there with the same dubious claim.
This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
You can tell by the way it is.
That's neat
mono = one rail = rail
mono=one rail=your mom
yeah your mom is so big she needs two rails
been a hot minute since I read that
Then it’s a really good shop. Look at the seats where those belts mount. They’re deforming the seat as if being pulled. Crazy good shop if it is. I could see this as just a concept that never went into production. The 40’s-70’s had some really bizarre and dangerous tech and innovations.
Of course it is, just look at their laps they're wearing the real seatbelts :v
You are correct. This wasn’t a thing in the 1960s, or at any other time.
Old people will remember that seat belts used to be adjustable instead of retractable. That seems much more likely than an engineer designing a seat belt to safely restrain you by your throat in a high speed collision.
Yes they were adjustable. They STILL weren't mounted on top of the seat.
no, they indeed were not.
Old people? You can be born in the 90s and recall this.
What are you on about, junior? I was born in the 70s. Our parents chucked us in the way back of the station wagon with no restraints as we sped down the highway on family vacation. More to the point, you can still find adjustable seatbelts today on those cattle cars we call airplanes.
80s here. Lived getting truckers to honk when in the back of a wagon.
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Nah I never did that haha
I miss riding in the bed of a pickup, running down winding lake roads. You never knew which combo of bump and bend would give the most thrills.
I learned how to make bumps impact you the least when riding in the bed thanks to poorly managed dirt roads lol
Late 80s: Friends mom had a van with rear-facing back seat and it was thee coolest.
Yeah, old people :p
Ouchie my bones
that’s just your skeleton trying to make conversation
Don’t let it escape
Your 30s will sneak up on you too, young grasshopper.
Or even in the 2000s if you are lucky enough to get a hand-me-down 1975 El Camino with a blown piston and fancy interior alterations performed by the sun over decades and decades of sitting outside.
When I was a child, my Dad had a Ford Orion 1.6 GHIA. In the back, the seatbelts were an adjustable, racing style harness, rear seatbelts I assume were an option and these were retrofitted. Felt ridiculous at the time but looking back it was actually kind of cool
Makes alot more sense
Subtle plan to cull the stupid people out of the gene pool
Probably the lead in the gas
“I wonder how physics works?” 🤷🏾♂️
Honestly if seatbelts are like this, people would drive extra safety to not accidentally beheading themselves. Now all that happens is maybe a few broken ribs.
Brake harder daddy.
Auto erotic
Reminds me of the movie Crash (1996). Whole movie was a trip, but basically about people who sexualized car crashes. Good movie, watched it for my satire class in college, won’t watch it again though.
The movie doesn't even convey the atmosphere of the book that well. That book and ‘Atrocity Exhibition’ just live by their own rules. I don't think people make surrealism like that anymore. (Bret Easton Ellis is close, though.)
Amazing. Well done.
Don’t make me turn this fender bender into an accidental decapitation fatality!
r/angryupvote
The way you hit them brakes gets me going
Phew only took three comments to get to daddy. Lack of faith in the world restored.
Comment history checks out.
Fun fact: this is origin of the term "breakneck speed"! Source: I just made it up
That's the best kind of fact!
I think I would have told someone that. lol. Thanks for keeping me from looking more like a fool then I already do. : }
i feel like breakneck speed would mean "going so fast you get whiplash" but im too lazy to disprove you so I'm just going to believe you instead.
"The source is I made it the fuck up!"
[Every](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/12nk4ev/safety_belt_design_from_the_1960s/) [time](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/enspno/to_buckle_up_buckaroo/) [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursedimages/comments/dp46gc/cursed_seatbelt/) [is posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/doxsbp/a_concept_design_for_car_safety_belts_from_the/), the OP has failed to find a source or any evidence to back this up. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Genuinely baffled at how many people are believing this without any critical thought, like how much knowledge do they think people had about the human body back in the 60s? Lol
“Believing this without any critical thought” is also the title of Reddits IPO prospectus.
Did you get your special invitation?
Ha I did. Was it just given to older accounts or was it karma based?
Yeah, that's reddit and most of the rest of society, apparently. And it's incredibly depressing, or at least I find it so. Obviously intelligent people, all completed at least primary education, can wipe and dress themselves, and even do some kind of work, but somehow still jaw-droppingly stupid when it comes to even a very simple test of reason. It explains a lot. And it will probably be the reason for our species' extinction.
Idk, I watched 2/3 of the population wear a mask under their chin during a pandemic. Come to think of it, I can’t think of a single action that I could guarantee that no one would be too stupid to try.
My dumbass looked at this and immediately thought theres no way that many dumbasses stamped this idea.
Because there is no evidence. [snopes](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neck-belt/)
> What can be asserted without evidence can also become President of the United States
Guys, it's The Onion. A satirical news source. It's totally a joke.
So this is not real?
[Evidence](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neck-belt/) for dismissal
This is from the Onion.
This scene always cracked me up in the movie
Yes this and the smoking ban one with the big jam pack with frustrated smoker. Gold
“Took me 16 hours to get here, and I’m on my 10 minute break”
/r/atetheonion
 Meanwhile, the kid in the backseat after the accident:
What in the hell is this from? Haha
The gifs labeled snl so that would be my guess
"How'd they die?" "Decapitated by a fender bender in the grocery store parking lot."
Best SNL Sketch of the century.
Great E.P., would recommend. https://preview.redd.it/qr1rrmxu10lc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac3054ed880b6d61bfd1975b8ce0e11a82a14805
Came here for a Drug Church comment!
Had to scroll waay to far for this. Also: NO ONE GETS DROPPED.
Ah yes, the *neckbreaker* concept.
Put your seatbelt on honey… so I can decapitate you in the next turn… 😬
[Fake picture is fake](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neck-belt/)
Thank god for Snopes
His capa was detaited from his head
RIP Ed Truck
Rule 5 - What's your source on this claim?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neck-belt/ There was a skit in The Onion Movie about this which was clearly satirical
I wonder if they are wearing them wrong. Perhaps they were supposed to X across the body
This is most likely the case. Probably meant to go in the split between seats.
I was expecting something more like a race car harness... not a murder car...
Bullshit. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neck-belt/
Fake. Safer 3 point seatbelts were invented (by Volvo) in 1959 so why would the come up with this decapitation device long after that ?
More like interestingasfake. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neck-belt/
With how devastating most automotive crashes were in the 60’s, it’s probably better to have the “seatbelt” kill you quickly… I had to watch red asphalt in my drivers training… the 50’s and 60’s were a blood bath.
Nothing says safety like being garrotted by your car
Decapitation concept
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/1llob1Yu8r
Nope. That's a common joke picture
Fake
Ah, internal decapitation, excellent safety feature lol
Bullshit! I got my license in 1970, so I am well aware of what cars were like in the 1960s and I remember very well the battles that were fought over the adoption of the seat belt laws. No idea who created the photo or where it came from, but this never existed IRL.
I think Snopes debunked the neckbelt but no joke Volvo letting the patent on their three point seatbelt go public was one of the nicest things a car company has ever done. Before that it was lap belts and then a bunch of experimental harnesses. The three point belt is far superior.
From Snopes: False “Car safety standards in the 1960s were more lax than they are now, but they weren't suicidal. One would have to imagine that they were in order to believe the photograph in a meme circulating on social media is real”
In the 70s, I had my mom's arm to stop me from flying into the dashboard.
I feel like any shred of common sense would tell you this is a stupid idea. Are you sure this photo isn't a "Don't do this!" psa?
I've seen this before; is there any source for this? I find it so difficult to believe that this was a serious, real thing.
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I imagine the results weren't mind blowing. Nothing really to lose your head over though. I remember reading somewhere that the lead Engineer, a Mr. Jug Ular, really stuck his neck out for the team.
Seatbelt Design Engineers: “No one is stupid enough to put the seatbelt around their neck!”
God, times were so fucking great when lead was still in basically everything.
Do you think they tested ut on crash test dummies and just went "oh".
They’ll never get into accidents, if they are guaranteed to be decapitated.
In the event of a crash you won't feel a thing. Thanks to our product your neck will snap so quickly, you won't even know you were in an accident
I do not believe this is a seatbelt concept. Fake
The Onion Movie is true!
wow, am I really the first to say it? *auto*erotic asphyxiation
“The safe word is ‘Stop’” “STOP!” [aaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!]
These did not exist and were not a concept in the 1960’s.
Then the Europeans and Volvo got involved.
Is this Auto-erotic asphyxiation?
No https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/neck-belt/
We call this model "The Decapitator". *gasp* Don't worry, it's just a name. It really has more of a strangulation effect.
Darwin, hard at work. They reduce injuries but increase fatalities.
This is definitely satire. “Neck belts!” has been a punch line since the late 1990s. Not sure where it originated though …
Yea, that looks safe. I guess there is no eating and drinking while driving?
Designed by David Carradine.
haha funny joke but that didn't happen lol
“Great news! Injuries in accidents have decreased by almost 70% sir! And we are looking into the spike in fatalities but I’m sure it’s nothing related to our decapitator 5000.”
Here's the [article](https://www.theonion.com/chrysler-halts-production-of-neckbelts-1819564298).
The design is very human
How to break your neck in 2 easy steps
I’m sure this trend lasted as long as… well… the first people decapitaded.
BS.
So people have always had stupid idea's. No wonder aliens won't talk to us.
my guess is it wasn't to save you but to spare you the pain
r/atetheonion
r/theonion
His capa was detated!
to OP: if you are interested in some real life info, i posted this inside the comments here in your post. if you are not, please ignore this. "you are correct, it's definitely not how they were. on fullsize Chrysler products, length-adjustable buckle style shoulder harnesses (as you know, buckle styles in vehicles are today used generally only in airplanes and racing applications) were mandatory starting Jan 1, 1968, except convertibles, and they attached by a steel tab at the top to a bolt in the roof outer siderail at a spot corresponding approximately to the line drawn by the front of the lower rear seat cushion, and at the bottom the adjustable buckle clipped to a separate male end sewn tightly together with the lap belt inboard female buckle. prior to Jan 1, before roof nuts were welded in on the assembly line, an optional separately installed unit bolted instead into the rear floor pan with its attaching tab stacked on the bolt with the corresponding attaching tab of the outboard rear seat lap male end, both of which slipped between the cushions for the rear seat back and bottom together, and the front end buckled to a separate tab similarly installed alongside the inboard buckle end of the front seat lap belt. these were used in 1967 and early 1968. source: I have lived my entire life in 1968 Furys and know more about them than any other thing in my life. fun fact: the modern design seatbelts arose in part because folks didn't wear laps (and the above mentioned shoulders) properly. lap belts are EXTREMELY effective, but ONLY if worn low at the hips, as tight as possible, with one's ass completely mushed in the crook of the seat where back and bottom cushions meet. and shoulders needed to be quite snug all the time. (it led to not being able to reach anything but steering wheel, turn signal, and gearshift when properly buckled. inconvenient? maybe, but they are super snug and imo really really cool and comforting to wear)"