<VV> Sebring seats and seat belts in a 1965 Monza convertible - Very Nice

[Charlie]

The Sebring seats and seat belts look great.

The brackets are the important part since the belts are attached to the
seats, which will carry the entire seat forward to the dash in a crash if
the brackets don't hold the weight of you PLUS the seat to the floor?

Here's the direct link:
http://www.jefflilly.com/gallery/classics/1965-corvair/index.html

the PG shifter was moved to the center console which is a nice touch, but I
don't care for the "monochrome" Corsa dash that looks a little bland without
the contrasting trim around the gauges?

Very nice car though, and the panel alignments are very professionally done!

Charlie


-----Original Message-----
From: VirtualVairs [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of
MarK Durham via VirtualVairs
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 7:48 AM
To: Jay Maechtlen
Cc: Virtual Vairs
Subject: Re: <VV> seats and seat belts

If you want to see a set of those Sebring convertible seats installed in a
Corvair, go to www.jefflilly.com, click on the classics bullet, then the 65
convert in blue.

One of the best restorations I have ever seen. The seats look great, too.

Mark Durham
Hauser, Idaho
62 Monza coupe Red/Red 4 speed

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Jay Maechtlen via VirtualVairs <
virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:

> On 3/27/2015 1:52 PM, Charlie via VirtualVairs wrote:
>
>> I think it was warned before that if the belts are integrated with 
>> the seats, the entire unit will crash you against the dash if the 
>> brackets are not strong enough to hold you AND THE SEATS to the floor?
>>
>> So, make sure your brackets are strong enough to hold everything back!
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>
>>  Exactly - the supports have to restrain you and the seat in a crash.
> Obviously, the seats are designed to do that, but it would take some 
> pretty beefy supports to mount the seats, to survive a significant crash.
> Figure a crash can easily impose 5G on you - figure 5*(your weight) at 
> a height of (the middle of you) yanking on that seat?
> 5*200 = 1000 lb about the lower middle of the seat. That's a pretty 
> good yank on the mounds.
>
> oh - actually the crash can be 10 G or more?
> Adjust calculations as needed.
>
>
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