Seat Belts

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In a message dated 6/2/04 5:05:19 AM, hudsonman16@yahoo.co.uk writes:

I'm doing work on a 1916 for a friend. He wants to install seat

belts. I don't have the experience to do this. Can anyone give some

advice on this?





     Hudsonman16 has asked a question that a lot of us may well be interested in. Seat belts were not installed in our cars and many of us might feel safer if they had been. The matter has certainly been addressed by others in the hobby, particularly in the Model A groups, but I don't recall the specific answer. Does anyone know how this should be done?

     I imagine that the belts would need to be fixed to the frame as the bodywork and floorboards don't seem strong enough to hold the belt anchors under significant load.

     Are seat belts really much help in our cars anyway? I have a vision of my Town Sedan just exploding into a shower of wood chips & splinters if it was ever really hit hard. Any thoughts?







Paul O'Neil

SoCal

1926 Hudson Anderson Coupe

1929 Hudson Town Sedan

1939 Cadillac Coupe (How'd that get in here?)



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