Looking for a nice set of '68 rear Robbins seat belts in black. Most important thing is that the belts themselves are in good shape and not faded, and the metal parts aren’t rusty. I can wash them if needed, or replace the plastic parts if they’re broken. They should be the style with the plastic sleeves at the bottom. Anyone?
Pretty certain I have what you need.My stuff is in a storage unit and I should be going there on Friday or Sunday.These are regular 68 rear seat belts.Unsure of what you mean by Robbins seat belts?
Doug
Shocked to hear that West coast doesn’t have standard black seat belts in stock…I guess black is the most popular color, so they must go fast. Are you willing to pay WCCC prices? LOL. Email me, I probably have what you need. thanks, Scott
Robbins is the name of the company that produced seat belts for Ford. The ROBBINS name will be on the tag that is sewed onto the belt webbing and the female part will also be marked with the name on the backside of the buckle. Robbins was not the only company that produced seatbelts for Ford so you may find belts with other names on them.
We have plenty but they’re all from nasty parts cars that have sat out in fields for decades. Faded, rusty, etc. Not in the condition I’m looking for. I’ll email you!
Great, let me know what you have! And as Randy said, Robbins is one of the manufacturers of the seat belts. That’s what I have for the fronts so I’d like them to match.
The WCCC self service seat belt section is rather intimidating at first glance. Our forecast shows a few days in a row of snow, I will take home a few boxes and see if any clean up.
If you can find some with good buckles Python Restorations in Dallas can fix you up with new belts with the correct stitching and even replace your faded or missing date code tags. He did mine.
Python does better work at a far better price and is much easier to deal with than Snakeoyl. Python is the only one with exact sew on date code tags too.
Yeah, I was contemplating that. Have been in touch with him. But the front set I have is pretty presentable, and if I can find good rears there will be no need to spend the ~$500 to have restored belts made. But he does really nice work, so I may be tempted to go down that road at some point.
No… I got this. It just takes a little “homework” in the evenings. With some elbow grease, boiling water, RIT and vinegar you can take 3 sets and come up with one show quality set. I just have to wait until the Mrs. is not looking so as to use her front load washing machine.
Stewart (Python) has been restoring seat belts for about 20 years. When did you restore the car? He was in business before I had internet. Before seat belts he was restoring steering boxes but that dried up when Flaming River started selling new boxes for the same price he was getting for overhauls.