Seatbelt buckle location on 1972 911T Targa

[Winter911]

Hi all, I recently finished my cab to targa transformation.
One of the last things I need to do, is figure out where the buckle for the seatbelt is supposed to bolt up.

My car does not have the little “ears” with the hoops that I see in some cars.

I haven’t been able to find an image for reference. If you have one, please share.

Does it bolt up to the side of the ebrake assembly?
Right now, there just a strap bolted to the floor, which is obviously not right.

Thanks.

[kwyjibo]

I don't log in often enough here so I've missed your progress - congrats on the bar, it looks great. Always happy to see another targa being rescued

For your buckle: in '72 it was mounted to the seat rail. From some of your photos it looks like you have later seats installed which don't have the mounts. Here's a photo that I found from the classified section that shows the receiver near the base of the hinge. There's a tab (which you can see the top of above the rusty hinge) bolted to the seat rail that accepts the shoulder bolt (the bullseye lighter area) that allows the receiver to rotate.


Are you planning to go back to original seats?

[kwyjibo]

I couldn't edit the previous post with this image
#5 in the parts diagram is the tab that mounts to the rails

[Winter911]

Originally Posted by kwyjibo

I don't log in often enough here so I've missed your progress - congrats on the bar, it looks great. Always happy to see another targa being rescued

For your buckle: in '72 it was mounted to the seat rail. From some of your photos it looks like you have later seats installed which don't have the mounts. Here's a photo that I found from the classified section that shows the receiver near the base of the hinge. There's a tab (which you can see the top of above the rusty hinge) bolted to the seat rail that accepts the shoulder bolt (the bullseye lighter area) that allows the receiver to rotate.


Are you planning to go back to original seats?

That makes a lot of sense. I appreciate the info.

If I can find stock seats, then yeah. PO put 80s seats in it.
I’d rather have some ST replica seats but they’re hard to come by.

Thanks again

[HarryD]

I had a similar issue when I put 1977 seats in my 1973. To fit the seats, I needed an adapter to allow the narrower later seats, fit where the stock ones were. When I had the adapters fabricated, I had them add "ears" on each one to give me a place to attach the lap parts of the belt to the adapter.

seatbelt attachment for late seats in early car