[Spridgets] Seat belts

[Pete Chast]

The law in NYS only applied to those cars that were 'born'
with the belts.

Got a ticket once, years ago, driving a friends 55 Chevy and
it was thrown out for that reason.

Pete

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:14:52 -0700, Peter Caldwell <peter at nosimport.com>  
wrote:

>
> At 10:50 PM 6/29/2009, David Ramsey wrote:
>> My 61 has a no point.
>>                 Crash
>>
>> No 3 points, but I'm working on that too.
> ==========================
> Coupla points.....
>
> Crash, literature indicates that in fact, the 1961 Sprite is/was the
> first car to have the soon to be NY State mandated (effective 1962)
> seatbelt anchorages.
>
> Second, here in Westconsin, and I suspect elsewhere, we are enacting
> legislation enabling the confabulatory to be able to pull you over
> strictly for lack of seatbelt. Up until now, they would be able to
> ticket you for no belt if they had otherwise reason to stop you. Now,
> thanks to federal "mandates" tied to highway funding, they can stop
> you for not having a belt. So, I guess we all need to show a shoulder
> belt. I really don't want a shoulder belt, though I religiously wear
> a lap belt in my Mini. And, I REALLY don't want to discuss the
> originality issue at bar time.....
>
> I think I'll be installing a fictitious shoulder belt.
>
> Peter C.
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