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[h=2]Lockout safety features[/h] This couple might be camping because they couldn’t figure out the seat belt lockout system on their ’74 Vega lol | Chevrolet


The 1974 model year brought some of the biggest changes in automotive history. All cars had to have 5 mile per hour impact bumpers, catalytic converters, and a number of other safety and emissions features.
One of these was the seat belt immobilizer, standard on all 1974 cars. To ensure people wore their seat belts, automakers wired the driver’s and front passenger belts to the ignition. If they weren’t fastened, the car wouldn’t start. Despite good intentions, the system proved to be troublesome and unreliable, and customers hated them. Thanks to a ferocious public backlash, Congress rescinded the requirement before the year was out.

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Every good mechanic in the 70's needed to move a car around the shop
and the trick was that you could buy a junkyard seatbelt plug-in for almost nothing.

People who rebelled against govt control also bought them attached to junk seatbelts
to avoid wearing seatbelts.

Some people made a jumper wire and permanently disabled the solenoid under the dash.

Some people cut the wire under the seat that detected if a person was sitting there.

It's possible that law enforcement had something to do with abandonment,
since police could not start the car for pursuit without their seatbelts plugged in.