Gack.
The piece of junk plastic part of the Seatbelt Release gizmo broke after just 374,000 miles and 35 years.
The black plastic part just snapped off last week in the cold weather. It is GM PN# 20020379, and I can find pictures of it on-line, and a story about how GM remade them.
https://gm-efi.com/news/gbodyparts-announces-a-reproduction-drivers-seatbelt-release/
But no one anywhere has one in the parts catalog. I found one new one on EBAY, but they were sold out. I had to buy a used one from Ebay.
It was used in almost all the G body cars, Buick, GM, Chevy. Pontiac and so on. Just too old of a car for that part to be available new. I found one article that said: We’d say that on 90% of the G-Body’s out there, this is broken or extremely worn out. On every parts vehicle that we have had, these have been removed and sold.
One would think there is a need for it, make it available. Oh well.