after so many years of owning this 71 GS, last night cleaning it up for the nationals I noticed that it has black seat belts and black plastic covers for them in a camel brown interior. I'm still puzzle, I guess I have never been that observant. So, I guess in 71 they didn't make brown seat belts? It just looks odd! I restored this car 30 years ago and I just noticed this. Getting old sucks. Fernando
For 1971 (and many other years as well) the standard seat belts were black regardless of the interior color. If Color Coordinated Custom seat belts are ordered (option J1, J3, J5 on the 1971 GS order form) the belt color will match the interior and the buckles are the satin silver color metal. The obvious exception is white interiors always got black belts with both the standard and Custom seat belt option.
Interesting, thanks for clarification as I have been searching for the same colored belts for my car because I thought someone changed them even though the date codes are correct.
...,it's about the buckles when you have a white (or pearl) interior with a "J" option. There were times I wished my belts had been color-coordinated...until I thought about what they would have looked like by time car came to me. Black is good. Wouldn't want color-coordinated carpet either, have enough trouble with jeans/seats...
