[Roadsters] Pretty snappy bidding underway for a '69 1600, item # 200160...

[Gary McCormick]

Been down this road before, so I know it's no use debating anti-helmet, anti-seat belt "personal rights" fanatics - but I meant that you were probably never in a serious accident riding w/o seatbelts when you were a kid, as you bragged.

There simply is no valid argument against seatbelts and motorcycle helmets, given the possible - very dire - consequences of NOT using them.

Gary McCormick
San Jose, CA

BARTERDUDE at aol.com wrote: In a message dated 10/16/2007 8:19:15 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
gkmcc at sbcglobal.net writes:

"...survived without the aid of seat belts..." but you were never in a  
vehicle that was in a serious accident, I'll warrant. Same thing with your  
daughter in the wind-up swing (?!). Pretty scary.

Growing up the son of  a CHP officer, and reading CHP Magazine every month 
since I was old enough to  read, I never resented seat belts - I read the 
accident reports and saw those  (thankfully black & white) pictures. Our family cars 
had 'em installed  before they were required by law. Never resented or even 
questioned wearing a  helmet to ride my motorcycles, either - I had seen those 
pictures in CHP  magazine, too. Picked myself up and walked away from a spill 
on a racetrack  once - happened at 60+ mph - and had to throw away my helmet 
and buy a new one  'cause it looked like it had been held up to a belt sander.

On the  motorcycle thing: be careful what you say. When Elizabeth Dole - you 
know,  Bob's wife - was head of the NHTSA back in the '70s, she was pushing 
for a  requirement that motorcycles have a rotating yellow light mounted on a 
"sissy  bar" arrangement - to increase visibility.

Gary McCormick
San Jose,  CA
'70 2000 SRL311-13291


LIGHTEN UP MY MAN.  Yes, I WAS in serious accidents on both  motorcycle and 
in cars (one of my Datsun got retired to the scrap heap due to  stupidity in 
the other driver). 
 
Still standing, still walking, still enjoying the ride on both.    Not going 
to debate the issues, the world is full of both opinions, I have mine  and you 
have yours...that's why I live in a State that does not mandate  motorcycle 
helmets, and I stepped in the local political arena to make sure  government 
does not mandate too much in our personal lives.
 
Here's to keeping the world revolving and the pursuit of life, liberty and  
happiness.  Datsun's FOREVER.  

Gary Lasater  - Parker CO
founding member _www.WyCROC.org_ (http://www.wycroc.org/) 
1963 SPL310-00161C (Single  Carb)
1963 SPL310-00289B (Single Carb)
1964 SPL310-01289
1969  SRL311-12536 (licensed as '70)
1970 SPL311-28169