Tim, do you have a website address or anything for Juliano's three point
belts ? Thanks, Bob K in PHX, AZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "tim" <lloydt@Colorado.EDU>
To: "Dana Muise" <dana@spazzco.com>
Cc: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] those kids and their hot rods
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Dana Muise wrote:
>
> > The restoration of my '59 is going to take longer now. On Sautrday
> > some 18 year old kid, driving 80 mph+ in a hopped up Honda lost
> > control on highway 101 and fish tailed into my truck. 2002 Honda
> > Prelude v.s 1959 Chevy Apache... no contest. Although my front fender
> > is totally crushed, that honda bounced off me like a rubber ball. He
> > was okay, but the CHP were amazed to see a bent fender on my truck
> > while the Honda was a pile of twisted wreckage. Driving a classic
> > truck is like driving a Sherman tank, but I only have lap belts. Had I
> > hit the imbankment I would have been severly injured (that's if the
> > lab belts actually held me in place). If I get an insurance claim form
> > this I'm getting Sholder belts installed.
>
> Major bummer. Glad to hear you (and the truck) are OK. They sure don't
> make 'em like they used to -- I recently spun out my "other car", an 84
> Mazda 626, and dinged a tree at 15 mph. Looks like I got hit by a freight
> train.
>
> On another note, I would highly recommend Juliano's 3-point seatbelts.
> Took me a night to install, and my '54 is much safer.
>
>
> Tim Lloyd, lloyd@lasp.colorado.edu
> "Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been
> sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful,
> rebellious, and immature." -- Tom Robbins
> "The eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the
> planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed
> by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace."
> -- John F. Kennedy
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