Thanks everyone for your interesting and informative comments.

Long story short... I'm just going to give the kids a drive in the old beast more often. Even more of an excuse to keep it(I prefer the county over the disco, although AC and not going deaf would be nice &#129315

As noted earlier, way too much disco electricery going on to try switch off the safety bags and I'm not risking them going off in my kids face.

Thanks again Temporarily disable passenger safety airbags