[Spits] High back Spitfire seat

Doug Braun doug at dougbraun.com
Thu Feb 20 05:36:38 MST 2014


If you get seriously rear-ended, the seatback latch will probably fail, and
the entire seatback will just collapse...

Doug


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Kevin Rhodes <krhodes1 at maine.rr.com> wrote:

> If you are at all tall, the headrests of either the earlier or later seats
> will do nothing at all in an accident. On my '74, the headrests don't stick
> up past the base of my neck even extended as far as they go. If I got
> rear-ended, I would be more worried about the SUV that hit me taking my
> head
> clean off than getting whiplash. But, a Spitfire is still safer than a
> motorcycle! :-)


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