Hi guys, and Gals! you folks did so good on my other questions, here's another:

When my top is down, I notice on the passenger side a "snap on leather band" behind the head of the passenger seat. It is not on the drivers seat just the Passengers. I took it off and snapped it back. I looked in the manual but, could not find anything on what it could be? It's the same color and leather of the seat so, they go toghter, but no knowledge of what it could be for? Any thoughts?

Kj

 

Child Restraint Anchors - The front passenger seat includes a LATCH (Lower Anchors and Tether for Children) child seat anchorage system. LATCH-compatible child seats are those engineered for retention by direct attachment to the vehicle’s seat structure rather than with the vehicle’s seat belts. The child seat’s lower anchors attach to the seat structure via heavy-gauge wire loops at the intersection of the seat cushion and seat back. The child seat’s upper tether strap attaches to a child seat tether anchor. Child seats can also be securely fastened in the passenger seat using the seat belts. For this purpose, the passenger seat belt includes a dual-mode SBT. After the child seat is positioned and the belt routed according to instructions for the child seat, the seat belt is pulled all the way out of the SBT to the end of its travel. This switches the SBT to the “Automatic Locking” mode. As the seat belt retracts, the SBT locks to prevent the belt from being pulled out again. Pulling the belt snugly over the child seat secures the seat in place. When the belt retracts fully after child seat removal, normal “Emergency Locking” action is restored to the SBT.

 

Thanks, makes good sence now. It has been almost 20 some years since we had kids at home, and the car seats 20 years ago were not like they are now. I feel sorry for the new parents, what a pain. I remember riding in my Dad's 51 DeSoto convertable no seat belts, no child resistants, putting my head out the window or feeling the wind in my face laughing and having a great time in a convertable.....And I got to sit in the front sit occasionally.

Kj

 

And here I thought it was for holding my wife's hat . Seems to work well for that.

As for the old days, I can remember as a Summer camp counselor for the JCCA, we used to tow youngsters around in an old stake body flatbed truck through the Ozark back roads. Arms flailing thru the sides, kids bouncing on the hard wooden deck, a wild, unsecured ride.

The speed limit on these twisty rocky knobbed roads was 55 MPH. Rather optimistic but ,,,,,, I tried.

Never lost a kid over the side, never had one get hurt by passing branches or rocks as I, a teenage driver, barreled through the rocky roads and wooded hills of Southwest MO.

The kids, no less the worse for wear, had a carefree ball.

Today, the very thought would be unheard of.


roadster with a stick

 

That helpful strap is a dandy place to hang your drycleaning.

 

Yes, I remember those days. I can even remember laying in the rear widow deck on dad's 57 Chevy. Now we have so many safety mechanisms in place that it has thrown Darwin's theory of Natural Selection totally out of kilter. LOL And, we wonder why there are so many idiots in the world today. I say it is because of safety devices.

 

we use to go to a junkyard, my uncles and I, as I was pretty young, and get old car hoods, and drag them around like sleds in the winter time, only we were knocking down high weeds in the pasture...worked pretty good, and we were having fun doing it...when the tractor wasn't fast enough, we hooked it to a pickup truck, and the whip was on....

 

My father even put American Flags on the bumpers, I thought I was riding in a "presidents" auto. Going to the Drive-In movies with the top down was AHHHHSOME!

Kj

 

and riding in our 50 Ford, my mom would put her arm out to keep me from hitting the dash when she stoped to fast...

 

My mom let me hit the dash!

 

Well, that explains a lot then....

 

did your mom have a cast? mine did

 

It's amazing any of us are alive today!

 

We are. And it was by the process of natural selection.


roadster with a stick

 

Ok times have changed...remember when we just played outside "somewhere in the neighborhood" and mom would "ring the bell" to let us know it was dinner time.???

We are lucky to be alive.

Kj

 

Yeah, that was back when your neighbor could spank you for bingbad and not get sued.

And you parents could do it and not get arrested.

Hence the ability for mom to feel that you were safe even though well out of sight.

Now we are told by the likes of Hillary Clinton that, "It takes a village" to raise a child. But at the same time we take away the villager's ability to do so.

Is this evolving into a great country or what.

And here is what is amazing.

All this revelation over a simple little strap?????//

 

Franc,
Noting your first comment, I am originally from Britain, and looking back when we were kids, if you did something wrong, either the neighbor OR policeman would give you a clip around the ear,AND if you went home and told your parents, there was MORE than a good chance, you were going to get another one. AND another thing, back in them days, our front door at home was NEVER EVER locked, even overnight, and we had NEVER even heard of security alarms. How times have changed, in MANY cases for the worst.

 

In answer to the original post, the clip is there even with the top up.