PASSENGERS?

BDF6 · Sep 18, 2020

What is the heaviest person you've had or will let in your car?
And, do you load it up or keep people out of the back seat?
I am going for a drive and the rider is LARGE. I rarely let anyone ride in the back seat. It is in great shape but I had a 'stretchy' scare after my mom-in-law was back (RIP- glad I took her that time) there for a 200 mile trip...The seat recovered without having to be recovered but why risk it. One person with me at a time is all I like anyway.
After receiving the car from my father I pulled the seat cover on the front driver side and the seat already had a big split in it. This is why those funky sheep skin seat covers are still there but they are 'molting' now so I'll be shopping soon.

493 Mike · Sep 18, 2020

Just got back from town with my 340# son.
Mike

dadsbee · Sep 18, 2020

Funny.. that was my fear exactly 364 days ago!!

Charger Dana · Sep 18, 2020

Passenger seats are just for show.

Ron H · Sep 18, 2020

Don't ahh know. I've not enacted any limits on weight or size of passengers and never had it come up. Any group rides for the past eons is in my wife's regular sedan or my pickup truck going to swap meets and such with two or three buds. I'd be hard pressed though to tell a balloon sized passenger "Ya ain't getting in my old ride until you spend six months on the nutri-system plan...or eat nothing but lettuce". lol

BDF6 · Sep 18, 2020

Charger Dana said:
Passenger seats are just for show.

And essentials in an emergency...

If you think your car doesn't get enough attention as is try pulling in to a rest stop or a gas station and while everyone is staring and get out a cat on a leash...

Macdon221 · Sep 18, 2020

My charger full of ladies on a Sunday afternoon or risk a seat cover...jeez I'll take the ladies any day. Tons of covers at Legendary. lol

Kern Dog · Sep 18, 2020

This is a funny question.

1967coronet · Sep 18, 2020

I have loaded the 67 full of grandkids and headed to a snow covered parking lot.
Donut Time :thumbsup:

, they have a blast and so do I.
With the bench seating I've had 6 adults more than once it the 67.
No problems. They are built for it.

Ron H · Sep 18, 2020

Kern Dog said:
This is a funny question.

Yes...yes it is...

66 Sat · Sep 18, 2020

After emigrating and not seeing some of my best mates for 20 years, I'd have them sitting in the passenger seats and going for a burn up in a heartbeat. You can replace seat covers, foam whatever. Rather that than being a lonely guy cruising around on his own all the time, too scared to damage the interior.

Budnicks · Sep 18, 2020

Sadly nobody
has been in my back seat for a long time,
probably more than 10 years ago
but my dog (90+ lb Chocolate Lab) Elvis, Buddy before him
& even then put a blanket down for him so he does tear it
I have enough seat belts for 6 but seating for 5 now
(front buckets, no more bench)

I do give kids rides every so often, usually the neighbor kids
they hear me fire it up & their dad, my bud Darren
tells them to come over & check

youngest is 7 (boy Will loves it)
the oldest is 10 (girl enjoys it occasionally too)
sort of fun to still share it with kids

gkent · Sep 18, 2020

I have no issues with who sits where but I want advance notice so I can lay something down over the carpets. And the rules are: get in, sit down, hold on and shut up.

Kern Dog · Sep 18, 2020

I put wide tires on the car and as a result, the tires rub the outer wheel tub if I have people in the back. That does suck....Because of that, I modified the outer tubs in my project car and plan to do the same in my red car.

33 IMP · Sep 18, 2020

I will haul anyone that thinks they can get into the rumble seat....if I think they can get out.

moparedtn · Sep 18, 2020

These things were built as 5-6 passenger vehicles.
Load 'em up!

P.S. If one of 'em equals two normal people, do the math and act accordingly.

67belvedere/225 · Sep 18, 2020

we were six in my belve , I take the kids skateboarding Friday nights , so they were max 100 lbs a pop
lol seat are just fine . just bought 2 extra lap belts for the middle from summit racing, and they had blue to match my interior

idrivemopar · Sep 18, 2020

Back in the day when i was 17/18 we had no problem with 8 people in the car, me driving, a skinny girl on the center console, a couple in the passenger seat, and boy girl boy girl in the back seat! LOL Now, i have had 4 people max.

Scott Engelhardt · Sep 18, 2020

Grandkids and dog in back. My buddy is 325 and he has ridden in passenger seat several times

BDF6 · Sep 18, 2020

I should have asked "Has a morbidly obese person ever BROKEN a seat in your car?"

Macdon221 said:
My charger full of ladies on a Sunday afternoon or risk a seat cover...jeez I'll take the ladies any day. Tons of covers at Legendary. lol

I am not worried about the seat covers. Re-read the post where I say a seat is already split and the seat COVERS are MOLTING. I will address these minor issues later as I am too busy driving my car to bother with such trifles.
Also, this is not about a "car load of ladies" it is about ONE person who weighs as much as a 4-5 people in ONE seat. lol

66 Sat said:
After emigrating and not seeing some of my best mates for 20 years, I'd have them sitting in the passenger seats and going for a burn up in a heartbeat. You can replace seat covers, foam whatever. Rather that than being a lonely guy cruising around on his own all the time, too scared to damage the interior.

Ha-ha! That is funny. You can replace a whole car, can you not! Well, I don't want to replace my seat FRAME. I wasn't taking some old friends I haven't seen in a long time for a "burn up" and I am far from "lonely" and "scared" "all the time" to have people in the car. I haven't given it a second thought until today and I have 10's of thousands of miles on it with 1-4 passengers in it.
My point was/is that this isn't about the rear seat of the car which is pristine and I'd like to keep that way. I never gave a second thought about that until it got stretched out and stayed that way for several days. I only mentioned rear seat for reference because of that.
I had a thought for the structure of my front passenger seat collapsing under the load because I've never had such a large person in it before. BTW, the seat survived unscathed and the torque monster didn't even notice the ballast.
So BOO-YA! :bananadance:

Maybe should do a poll on how many people would let a 4-600 lb person sit the front seat (of a car they CARE about) without a second thought while driving around on crappy, bumpy country roads?

Who gave a great/big/fat person the ride of their life today?
I did, that's who! :thumbsup:

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