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Old 11-27-2020, 05:28 PM   #1
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Trying to Buckle Seatbelt...

How often do you go to buckle your seatbelt yet you don't have one?
I did again today.
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Old 11-27-2020, 06:03 PM   #2
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Re: Trying to Buckle Seatbelt...

What’s worse is forgetting to put one on! Sorry officer I thought I was driving the 65
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Old 11-27-2020, 10:14 PM   #3
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Re: Trying to Buckle Seatbelt...

Never had that problem. I put 3 point belts in all my trucks.
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Old 11-27-2020, 10:50 PM   #4
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Re: Trying to Buckle Seatbelt...

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Never had that problem. I put 3 point belts in all my trucks.
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Me too. I'm always dumbfounded by those who upgrade their brakes and suspension in an effort to make the truck safer to drive but yet they have no seatbelts. I understand the idea of avoiding a crash with modern components, but I also firmly believe that a junkyard lap belt that I put in a 1953 International has already saved my life in 1986.
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Old 11-28-2020, 01:38 AM   #5
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Re: Trying to Buckle Seatbelt...

On my list for my 65.
Still got non-power drums too.
I did all that on my 66, but just haven't got around to it on my 65.
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Old 11-28-2020, 01:54 AM   #6
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Re: Trying to Buckle Seatbelt...

I didn't mean to sound like I was putting you down LM65. It's just that in my experience, seatbelts are important and provide the biggest bang for yer buck where personal safety is concerned.
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Old 11-28-2020, 11:02 AM   #7
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Re: Trying to Buckle Seatbelt...

No seatbelt and a non-collapsible steering column combined with the way people drive these days is scary. I had a 2 ton truck do a Michigan stop ( rolling stop)in front of me and I couldn't avoid him. Plowed into him about 50 with driver side front corner in my 86 squarebody. Pretty sure I would have been into the windshield if not through it if hadn't been wearing my seatbelt. Firm believer ever since!
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Old 11-28-2020, 04:34 PM   #8
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Re: Trying to Buckle Seatbelt...

I guess it would be an easy cheap upgrade to at least do lap belts.
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I do know that I want the 3 point eventually. - that's what I was grabbing for when I jumped into my 65 yesterday.
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Old 11-28-2020, 08:58 PM   #9
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Re: Trying to Buckle Seatbelt...

Heck, even when I had the old lap belts in my 63, if I went a couple weeks without driving it, I would grab for the 3 point harness I never had in there

The lap belts in my truck when I bought it were from a 68 Cadillac. I think they were for the rear seat, but they fit my truck well
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