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Old 03-18-2005, 06:41 PM
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Does anyone have a baby seat in a 98 Camaro? Can it be done at all?
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Old 03-18-2005, 06:44 PM
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I was wondering this too. I plan to keep my car, eventually the kids will come. I would like to take them out for a ride one day.
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Originally Posted by z28smokin
Does anyone have a baby seat in a 98 Camaro? Can it be done at all?
Thanks Dan.
Absolutely. I have had Camaros and Firebirds all the years my kids were little. I always had an infant and eventually toddler seat in the back. For a while it was our only car and we had to take the baby in the Camaro. You just face it backwards as instructed and they install like they would in any other car (even with the bucket seats).

Some people say it looks wrong to have a carseat in a musclecar but I think my kids looked cool as hell in my car

Just don't race with kids in the car
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Yea they fit in the back... but Fbody coolness rules say you have to get the Simpson race seat one...
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a buddy of mine made a custom bracket for the center and bolted down a carseat across the hump...his is a 2 adult and 2 kids + 1 baby car now..LOL
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Originally Posted by soundengineer
a buddy of mine made a custom bracket for the center and bolted down a carseat across the hump...his is a 2 adult and 2 kids + 1 baby car now..LOL
Thats dedication

See, there are alternatives to the minivan
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Originally Posted by z28smokin
Does anyone have a baby seat in a 98 Camaro? Can it be done at all?
Thanks Dan.
Car seats fit in the back of my 3rd gen.
Old 03-19-2005, 12:45 AM
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Man, I thought back seats were already baby seats from the factory
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Originally Posted by darrensls1formula
Absolutely. I have had Camaros and Firebirds all the years my kids were little. I always had an infant and eventually toddler seat in the back. For a while it was our only car and we had to take the baby in the Camaro. You just face it backwards as instructed and they install like they would in any other car (even with the bucket seats).

Some people say it looks wrong to have a carseat in a musclecar but I think my kids looked cool as hell in my car

Just don't race with kids in the car
im very glad to hear this, because im never getting rid of this car!
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both my firebirds have pulled baby haulin duty
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I have a 3 year old and a 5 year old and they both have had seats in the rear of both my 99' Bird and my 01' WS6. They both love driving in my car and think it is a race car.

The rear seats are perfect for little ones.
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I have had car seats (front& rear facing) in my 98 as well as my 2000 SS. It sucks for the passenger because you have to have the seat prety far froward for rear facing. But it works. I take my son out in the SS all the time. He loves the T-Tops.
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baby seats will fit anywhere, my mom had mine in a 79ta, 86ta and 94ta. it can be done!!! i had a babyseat in my 98 when i took my ex boyfriends lil sister for a ride when i first got my car. i will NEVER be a soccer mom. ill have a car seat in my sportscar, ill rock the kid in the hot car just like my mom did.
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Originally Posted by LS1BlackBeauty98
i will NEVER be a soccer mom. ill have a car seat in my sportscar, ill rock the kid in the hot car just like my mom did.
Thank you
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I've got a toddler seat in the back of my '02. No one fits into the back of an F-body better than kids.
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I had baby seat in mine just fine.
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Thanks for the responses everyone. I thought you had to use those teathers on the 01-'02 cars for them to work.
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Originally Posted by Mike98WS6
Thanks for the responses everyone. I thought you had to use those teathers on the 01-'02 cars for them to work.
Mines a 00, and it has the teathers
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When my daughter was three her favorite car was already the Camaro. (She called it the "camaro.") Nothing wrong with baby seats in your sports car, they fit fine.
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Originally Posted by MrDude_1
Yea they fit in the back... but Fbody coolness rules say you have to get the Simpson race seat one...
thats why I bought it... fits better than the infant seat in the camaro by far..

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