<VV> Faded Belts
ScottyGrover at aol.com
ScottyGrover at aol.com
Mon Aug 18 19:33:16 EDT 2008
In a message dated 8/18/2008 2:28:41 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
corvairduval at cox.net writes:
The conclusion? The new belts took the most force to break, but even the
faded, frazzled and chewed one took more force to break it than a human
could impart to it and survive.
Your milage may vary,
Frank DuVal
On 7 January, 2008, I had the steering freeze on my '65 ragtop and rammed a
post on a roadside steel fence. Not fast, I had just pulled out of a
parking space and was making a 180 which turned into a 270, but there was bruising
impact. When I went to undo my seatbelt, I found that it had torn in half
from the impact. The unit was not "faded, frazzled and chewed" but was the
original belt (or it was the one I had had on the car since I bought it in
'72.) Maybe I was just plain lucky to survive the accident with bruises
(particularly on my paunch) but the breaking definitely surprised me. Needless to
say, the car I bought to replace it has NEW belts (at least according to the
'Vair dealer that sold me the car.)
Scotty from Hollyweird
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