torredcuda
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"Effective January 1, 1969, each passenger car manufactured on or after that date had to comply with the requirements of FMVSS No. 202 [9]. The standard required a head restraint for the driver position and right front seating position to reduce the frequency and severity of neck injury in rear-end and other collisions. The restraint was intended to limit rearward motion of an occupant's head in a rear impact crash, thereby preventing whiplash or neck sprain injury due to hyperextension of the neck." Off the NHTSA site. So did all the `70 models get headrests or were supposed to get headrests, as i see a number of them with bench seats and NO headrests? If there were how did Chrysler get away with that, was there some way around the law or did they just slip thru the cracks?