Re: IML: Lap rope/Robe Rail

[<joestill1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Our '61 Crown has one.
--
Joe

---- randalpark@xxxxxxx wrote: 
> They seem to be more of a traditional touch given to luxury cars these 
> days, or at least as recently as my 1980 high end FMC daily driver. It 
> has one fastened to the back of each front seat cushion, above the 
> magazine pockets. Although more solid than a "rope", it could still be 
> called a Robe Rail, but I think most people use them as an assist 
> handle to get out of the back of the car.
> 
> In 1960, LeBarons had it but I don't know if Crowns did, or even 
> LeBarons with swivel seats, for that matter. Customs did not have a 
> Robe Rail. The back of the front seat of my '65 Crown has a metal 
> handle on each side, as do my '55 and '56, but nothing that one could 
> hang a robe or a blanket from. Clearly they were more of an assist 
> handle.
> 
> And of course we can't forget the Lavalier Straps in '64 and later 
> LeBarons! My '68 has those, but no Robe Rail.
> 
> Paul W.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dbarker534@xxxxxxx
> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 2:13 PM
> Subject: RE: IML: Lap rope
> 
> Definitely not me. I guess I'm younger than I thought...kinda. I would 
> have thought a 62 would have been long past the years of deficient 
> heaters. Did alot of different cars have them, or just the top of the 
> lines? The 60 rumbler american I had 25 years ago sure could have used 
> one. Of course, in ND you carried that stuff in the winter time anyway 
> if you traveled much.
> 
> Dave
> 67 Haze Green Sedan
> Covington, WA
> 
> 
> >From: Ken Lang <imperialken@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Interesting.... I personally figured it was just one individuals way 
> of
> >describing a seat belt. Who knew?
> >
> >Ken
> >
> >
> >[mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neal Herman
> >
> >A lap rope is a rope, duh!, that was strung across the back of the 
> front
> >seat, over which to hang a lap robe. A lap robe is essentially a 
> blanket
> >that back seat passengers draped over their laps and legs in the 
> winter, a
> >throw-back to when cars' heaters weren't as efficient as they are 
> today.
> >
> 
> 
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