Hemco seatbelts
Hemco seatbelts
Hello I have a 61 ek wagon with 2 hemco seatbelts in front are they original can someone help thanks.
Hi Bertie,
I may very well be incorrect here......... and serve no use but......
as a kid, the very first Holden I can remember having seat belts was an EJ - my Uncle was a superintendent at a Shire council and used to get a new departmental ute every year - I can remember, from age 5 - when I would go on holidays to his house for a week or so (must have been an awkward kid then for my parents to farm me out) he would take me to work in the "truck" as he called it (he also had a wonderful Vanguard 6 station wagon - a twin to my father's 4 sedan) the FB and EK he had did not have belts - I can remember the slippery seat and sliding back into it whenever he took off (not that they had a lot of grunt, just me sitting forward to "see" out the front window. When he got the EJ "truck" I was so impressed - seat belts, but at the time only lap, there was another option of sash - but these got a bad reputation for people "twisting and sliding out" of them on impact.
I was so happy in that EJ - I could see out of the window - good thing too - with the sash seat belt on in an FB or EK I would have been forced to pay more attention to what he was doing with the controls - not being able to look over the dash.......I had ducks disease......still do!
I can remember the buckle arrangement in the EJ to this day - it was a lever arrangement - sort of spring loaded- with the resulting "click" when the tag was inserted and locked in place......
To the best of my knowledge, any belt fitted to an FB or EK would have been after market - but as earlier stated, I may be wrong - I don't have any documentation to support this either way.......
frats,
Rosco
I may very well be incorrect here......... and serve no use but......
as a kid, the very first Holden I can remember having seat belts was an EJ - my Uncle was a superintendent at a Shire council and used to get a new departmental ute every year - I can remember, from age 5 - when I would go on holidays to his house for a week or so (must have been an awkward kid then for my parents to farm me out) he would take me to work in the "truck" as he called it (he also had a wonderful Vanguard 6 station wagon - a twin to my father's 4 sedan) the FB and EK he had did not have belts - I can remember the slippery seat and sliding back into it whenever he took off (not that they had a lot of grunt, just me sitting forward to "see" out the front window. When he got the EJ "truck" I was so impressed - seat belts, but at the time only lap, there was another option of sash - but these got a bad reputation for people "twisting and sliding out" of them on impact.
I was so happy in that EJ - I could see out of the window - good thing too - with the sash seat belt on in an FB or EK I would have been forced to pay more attention to what he was doing with the controls - not being able to look over the dash.......I had ducks disease......still do!
I can remember the buckle arrangement in the EJ to this day - it was a lever arrangement - sort of spring loaded- with the resulting "click" when the tag was inserted and locked in place......
To the best of my knowledge, any belt fitted to an FB or EK would have been after market - but as earlier stated, I may be wrong - I don't have any documentation to support this either way.......
frats,
Rosco
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Dont know if this is any help
http://www.fbekholden.com/forum/viewtop ... lts+option
http://www.fbekholden.com/forum/viewtop ... lts+option
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EK, the VN of the 60s
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