It's the storage device for the seat belt buckle itself
that way when you get out of the car the belt and buckle don't
swing out and down and bang the side of the car
The belt buckle should plug right into it as a holder
makes it easier to find it to put it on
Paul Tegler wizardz@toad.net http://www.teglerizer.com
OBie - '73 BGT - daily driver
http://www.teglerizer.com/mgstuff/ob_description.htm
Punkin' - '78 Spitfire - corner ripping screamer
http://www.teglerizer.com/triumphstuff/spit78.htm
Lil' Greenee - '73 RWA Midget - lady killer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>
To: spitfires@autox.team.net <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 7:12 PM
Subject: What is it?
>
>I've got a late model Spitfire, with a "safety" dodad that I cannot
>figure out. It looks for all the world like part of a seat belt buckle,
>and is fastened body about 8" forward of shoulder harness swivel. It's
>shown in many of the parts catalogs, listed vaguely as a safety item,
>and is not available anywhere. It gets the same vague mention in the
>Bentley manual, and isn't mentioned at all in the owners manual.
>
>It can't hold a seat belt because it can't latch in any way at all. It
>doesn't match up with anything to do with a hard top or soft top. And
>its got to do with a baby seat, why is there one on both sides?
>
>Does anyone know what the heck these things really are and why they are
>there?
>
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