Child Seat in a convertible?

[brengeek]

Most of the time you wouldn't be up on a freeway doing 80 with a kid in the back anyway. They'd be pissed off and nobody wants to hear that much screaming LOL. People need to mind their own beeswax. I swear.

[Ryanbabz71]

Here is my 2 and a half yr old




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[njmike]

My little ones love riding in "Daddies Fast Car" as they call it

[Lee123]

Makes me glad I had my kids before they started this baby seat stuff. One of yours is 4 and still need a baby seat? How old do they have to be before you're done with that?

My son was 3 1/2 when I bought a Fiat 124 2 seat convertible and I still remember how happy he was that we let him ride home from the dealer in the passenger seat. The only problem was the seat belt alarm kept gong off because he was so little that the belt wasn't pulled out far enough to register that it was on.

Edit - On second thought, after seeing Mike's picture maybe the kids like the seats since they can see out better. They sure do look happy.

[H0peful1]

Believe it or not, current recommendations are that kids be in booster seats til 57" tall so the seat belts hit their bodies in the correct position. Each state law is different. http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/l...fety_laws.html

I have a sports car with very narrow back seats, so I searched for seats with a narrower stance. My son had a Recaro seat w a built-in speaker system in my car, and a different Recaro booster in hubby's H3. He just graduated from the seats last week/reached 57". He did love both seats. As poster above said, he could see out well, and they were far more comfy than the seats hubby and I were in!

Buckling the little one's seat will probably be easier in a vert than it was to stretch and twist to reach in my current car!

ETA: I googled baby car seat camaro, and there are some articles, etc available. It also directed me back to previous threads here about car seats. Who knew?

[Lee123]

Originally Posted by H0peful1

Believe it or not, current recommendations are that kids be in booster seats til 57" tall so the seat belts hit their bodies in the correct position. Each state law is different. http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/l...fety_laws.html

I have a sports car with very narrow back seats, so I searched for seats with a narrower stance. My son had a Recaro seat w a built-in speaker system in my car, and a different Recaro booster in hubby's H3. He just graduated from the seats last week/reached 57". He did love both seats. As poster above said, he could see out well, and they were far more comfy than the seats hubby and I were in!

Buckling the little one's seat will probably be easier in a vert than it was to stretch and twist to reach in my current car!

ETA: I googled baby car seat camaro, and there are some articles, etc available. It also directed me back to previous threads here about car seats. Who knew?

Interesting site with other good information, too. Thanks! It is a bit astounding to think of second grade kids riding in child seats. I wonder how many back injuries occur to parents putting those things in and out of back seats in hardtops.

[H0peful1]

Originally Posted by Lee123

Interesting site with other good information, too. Thanks! It is a bit astounding to think of second grade kids riding in child seats. I wonder how many back injuries occur to parents putting those things in and out of back seats in hardtops.

Welcome!

Lol. I have a low, small coupe, so thank God for being thin with long arms! It was kinda like a new yoga pose. Bend at waist, twist torso sideways, and fully extend arms! At least when they're older, they can buckle themselves!

Hope OP got his vert!

[brengeek]

Originally Posted by njmike

My little ones love riding in "Daddies Fast Car" as they call it

THAT is a great picture!!

[Fnfalguy]

My 5 year old sets in a booster chair behind me in the driver's seat. He barely fits with me at wheel and being 6' tall. My 11 year old is in passenger seat and his 9 year old brother sets behind him. Truth be told, all 3 of them won't fit the car much longer but my oldest will get his one car in a few years.

[phdjent]

One of the main reasons for getting the camaro is having back seats and taking the whole family on joyrides, otherwise I'd be on the corvette forums instead of here with you all, LOL.
Any standard infant car seat base will fit easily in there and attach to anchors clearly marked on the lower back of the seats. Both front and rear facing child seats will fit. You just have to move the front seats a little more forward.
I highly suggest getting something like this also:
http://www.amazon.com/Summer-Infant-...ef=pd_sbs_ba_1

[njmike]

Originally Posted by brengeek

THAT is a great picture!!

Thank you!!

[Edwin320]

Originally Posted by phdjent

One of the main reasons for getting the camaro is having back seats and taking the whole family on joyrides, otherwise I'd be on the corvette forums instead of here with you all, LOL.
Any standard infant car seat base will fit easily in there and attach to anchors clearly marked on the lower back of the seats. Both front and rear facing child seats will fit. You just have to move the front seats a little more forward.
I highly suggest getting something like this also:
http://www.amazon.com/Summer-Infant-...ef=pd_sbs_ba_1

We're in the same boat my friend. I bought my convertible so that I can take my wife and baby boy out on a joyride together whenever we wanted. The Corvette couldn't offer that, so I passed on one (even though I would have loved to have one). Great pic. :-)

[FolkSS]

Always remember to seat belt in your empty (and occupied of course) front facing baby and booster seats! If the top is down, and they're not belted, they WILL fly out! I caught mine mid-air shortly after I bought it. It was empty of course.

FYI: full booster seats (with a back), need to be disassembled to fit them in the trunk. I have to pull the back off of the base to get it in the trunk.

FYI2: The seat only booster seats (no back), don't seem to work well in our back seats (my experience anyway). The seat has too much recline, and doesn't match up well. Leaves the kid sitting on the very back of the seat, where the back would fit in, not the seated surface. If anyone however has something that works, I'd be interested in seeing pictures and getting the model # of the booster.

Hope that helps someone...

[Angella]

this is really late.. but i had a rear facing baby seat in my camaro for my best friends baby! troubles i had was...

1. i could ONLY but the car seat in with the top DOWN

2. NO room for the stroller to put the car seat in... we had to use a toddler stroller and leave the car seat in the car. poor thing was only 8 months old but she was able to hold herself up in the toddler stroller!

i dont know too much about babies and their technical terms for things lol! but i hope that helps!