[geeks] Mac definitions

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Fri Jul 15 10:41:21 CDT 2011


On 07/15/11 11:04, Ben Greisler wrote:
> On Jul 15, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> I actually really liked the seat belts in my 1970 Camaro SS350.  There
>> was a lap belt, and a *completely separate* shoulder belt with a
>> separate buckle, and neither had a stupid inertia reel.  (I strongly
> 
> My 1971 Olds Cutlass S had the same setup and I loved it. The problem was that
> most people wouldn't use the shoulder belt as it was "extra work" to put it
> on. I once drove in a mid-80's domestic that the owner had cut out the
> seatbelts with a kitchen knife because he didn't like to use them. Seemed
> extreme to me. Why not just not use them?

The usual trick among the don't-like-seatbelts set was to just leave the
seatbelt buckled all the time and sit on it.


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