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Originally Posted by Kube
This issue is both interesting and simultaneously almost a non-issue for many of our cars.
Have any of you really paid attention to how the seats are bolted in? Do you really believe in a frontal crash the seat is not going to be yanked out of it's mountings? If so, think again.
In 1939, the wagon seat is bolted directly to the sheet metal floor pan, the '39 convertible is a tad better having a reinforcement piece of sheet metal in that area. So, not one but two pieces of sheet metal that the seat is bolted to and subsequently ripped from.
Belts in these old Fords are mostly for "piece of mind" as the cars themselves simply were not engineered for (much) safety.
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Exactly my point. Even counting on a newer car to save your life is foolhardy. I know because I respond to wrecks. Out here it's two lanes and a few Amish buggies, so my old car with me at the wheel is safe enough. So is my Harley. If it wasn't I'd take up golf or stay home.
You decide your level of comfort. Let's keep the laws out of our hobby.