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03-30-2002, 11:46 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Southern New Mexico
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Do you wear your Seatbelt in your truck?
How many of you wear the seatbelt in your truck and how often?
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03-30-2002, 11:50 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: over yonder
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when i was younger i didn't think about the seat belt much.....but as i get older, safety concious or whatever ya want to call it, its like habit.....i buckle up.
------------------ Keep On Truckin' Shane slecroix@bellsouth.net Athens, Alabama |
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03-30-2002, 11:51 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: SW Washington
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Yes. Almost all the time. Sometimes I don't if I'm just going down the street to the grocery store. I live in a very small town. Darren
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03-30-2002, 11:53 AM
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Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!!
 
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512
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My Blazer doesn't have any. The guy who owned it befor me removed them I think. I have had my Blazer for 13 years so you do the math. LOL I never use the ones in my wife's 98 either. I guess I don't take to kindly as to be forced by law to wear them. Part of my youth still hanging on.. LOL WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com
------------------ Click (Here) to visit our on-line catolog. E-mail me WEHEPP@attbi.com 72 BB Chevy Blazer 72 BB Chevy Short Fleet 72 SB 3/4 Ton 4X4 72 SB 1/2 Ton SWB 4X4 70 BB Chevy Short Step 70 SB Chevy Short Fleet 69 SB Chevy Short Step 68 SB Chevy Short Step 68 BB GMC Long Fleet 67 GMC 1/2 ton Panel "Founder" Classic Heartbeat Pickup Club Olympia, Washington's "Home For Wayword Chevys" www.ClassicHeartbeat.com
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03-30-2002, 11:54 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Indiana
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Never. If I had a seat belt on 2 years ago I would have been killed when I got rearended.
I gladly pay the no seatbelt ticket! And now that I really think about it. I have been in 5 major accidents(vehicles totaled) that I very well may have been killed if I had been wearing a seatbelt. ------------------
[This message has been edited by 71Chev (edited March 30, 2002).]
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03-30-2002, 11:59 AM
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Whisky Bent & Hell Bound
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Chula Vista, CA
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I think i would wear mine more often if it didnt always slide between the seat and end up on the floor by the gas tank. I get stopped at the Gate to the base I'm stationed every so often and I have to pull off to the side and dig it out
------------------ 68 custom stepside 350 with Carter 650, Weiand intake, HEI, Crane Enegizer 266 cam, Headmen headers 40 series Flowmasters, B&M hole shot 2,000 rmp stall, TCI TH350 Streetfighter, 4.10 gears Virginia Beach, VA by way of Houston, TX
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68 custom stepside PS,PB 350 with Vortec Heads,Carter 650, Edelbrock Performer,HEI, Crane Enegizer 266, Headmen headers 40 series Flowmasters, B&M hole shot 2,000 rmp stall, TCI TH350 Streetfighter, 4.10 gears 2003 Harley Davidson 883C San Diego, CA by way of Houston, TX |
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03-30-2002, 12:02 PM
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada
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ALWAYS, without fail and if I don't have it on I know something feels wrong. I also make sure my passengers buckle up. If they don't want to then they aren't going anywhere.
I know there is the occasional accident where wearing a seatbelt might impede your progress when escaping a burning wreck etc. etc. But as far as most accidents go, of which I had THREE (all write-offs to the vehicle too), they save your life. I'm still looking for a suitable 3-point shoulder harness replacement for my lap belts. ------------------ Southpa 1970 GMC 1500 Custom Victoria, BC, Canada
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03-30-2002, 12:19 PM
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14.1 @ 96MPH
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Mesa, AZ
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I never get in ANY car without a seatbelt on. Just doesn't feel right.
Part of it might be with the aggressive-driving bit, it holds me in the seat better.  Personally, I wish cars would come with five-point setups; I actually find those rather comfortable, hehe. Of course, the simplest way to avoid getting hurt in accidents...is don't get in accidents...definitely had my share of near-misses... ------------------ Project 1970 - soon to be seen at http://milhouse.treylis.org:81/
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03-30-2002, 12:24 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: East Central, MO
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When I leave town I put my belt on, in either truck. I drive 620 miles a week just for work and have seen everything from drunks crashing to ppl going to sleep and crashing. When around town I dont wear it.
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03-30-2002, 12:36 PM
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Formerly yellow72custom
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Austin, TX
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I always wear mine. My best friend was killed in a car wreck a year ago, he ran off the road and his truck turned over. He was thrown out of the truck, and it landed on top of him. If he was wearing his seat belt, he would still be alive today. There is absolutely NO excuse not to wear one, period.
------------------ Lucas "Another proud owner of one of the coolest trucks ever built" drop_shift@hotmail.com My Daily-Driver: '72 Chevy LWB Custom/10. Rebuilt 350, 300 HP thanks to a few go-fast goodies. Ochre with a white top. Future plans include a frame off restoration, and maybe a blown 383.
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03-30-2002, 12:39 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Cedar Park, TX
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ALWAYS...It makes me feel naked in public...
(well maybe not that bad)...if I dont have it on. I didnt much care for the 'lap' belts either, still felt wrong...was going to install 3-point seatbelts when I ran across some '99 dodge seats with built in seatbelts that I will be installing soon, I hope. See my website for pics! Cheers ------------------ 71 Chevy C-10 SWB Fleetside WAS:307w/3-on-the-tree NOW:350TBI/700R4/3.73 See it at www.prismnet.com/~grzanich
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03-30-2002, 12:53 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Post Falls, Idaho
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I rarely wear a seat belt. The only time is when my little boy tells me to. I was in an accident when I was twelve, we were hit by a logging truck actually, and I had one of those moments in your life that you can't help but commit to memory. The officer on the scene said that If I would have been wearing a belt, I would have been cut in half. That image just kind of stuck with me. Also, like Wes, I don't like being told that I have to do something. I was working in Cochrane Alberta for the last couple of years and there were two things that I could count on there. One was that someone would run the four way stop daily, and that I could count on getting 4-5 no seat belt tickets a year. Always from the same rcmp (rural cop) to. I would tell him, just give me the ticket. Oh, and I would also express the notion that I thought that in order to be a royal canadian mounted cop, you had to be in relatively good physical shape. He was a rather portly fella. That probably did not help my cause, but that is just the way I am.
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03-30-2002, 01:04 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Springfield, MO
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I always wear mine. I think that the risk of getting injured without one is more than when the seatbelt causes injuries by far!
I have just always wore mine and not even thought about it. Don't bother me one bit. I also make my passengers put it on. ------------------ Nick Rodenberg Wellington, MO http://nickrod.port5.com You can click on "My 72 Chevy Truck" I have a 72 Cheyenne 10 with a V8 350 and a TH-350 auto-tranny. White/Ochre/White Runs well... working on body. Hoping to have completed in March when I turn 16
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03-30-2002, 01:21 PM
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72 Cheyenne
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego
Posts: 2,086
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I rarely wear mine around town but always on the Highway.
------------------ Restored 72 Cheyenne C20 San Diego, CA |
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03-30-2002, 01:44 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: cornville, maine
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I wear them in newer cars where they actually are effective, but in the old trucks, I dont think they do much.
They were installed in the early years on a mandate, so there was not actual safty planning going on. If you smash into somthing your getting a column in the chest belt or not. I am considering updating my belts to shoulder belts, but right now, they are pretty much useless. They go on for traffic stops only. My answer is I wear them when they are would be effective. ------------------ jku 70 C30 CST Longhorn 68k10 burb 69 K5 beater 43 willys GPW 40 Chev coupe 67 catalina
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03-30-2002, 01:46 PM
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Crash Test Dummy
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Wilton, Ca. USA
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ALWAYS. I won't even pull out of the driveway without mine on. Twice now I have been turning the corner away from the house to have the driver's door pop open. In both cases I could feel the seatbelt holding me in.
I wrote this in 1975 when I flipped my Father's car: The crunching of metal The smashing of glass It was my seatbelt That saved my ass. Haven't gone more than 10 feet without one since.
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03-30-2002, 02:00 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Ky
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Mine don't have any so I don't
Herbie ------------------ hwedding56 67-CST Factory PS PB AIR Buckets SWB FLEET 350-700r4 67-SWB Step Plain Jane 350-3 on the tree 68 1-1/2 ton Dump 12' rock Bed soon to have fast68's 292 installed
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03-30-2002, 02:30 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Sahuarita, AZ USA
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My Studebaker didn't have any when I bought it, either. I didn't drive it until it had them, though. I put 3 point belts in my 71 Longhorn. I Will NOT drive or ride in a vehicle that I can't be buckled up in. I'll never forget seeing the car my sister died iin, and the way her chest pushed the steering column iinto the dash and her head imprint in the windshield. I even buckle up to go down to the highway to the mail box.
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03-30-2002, 02:34 PM
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Formerly yellow72custom
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Austin, TX
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My dad was a EMT for over 10 years. He also worked in the ER at out local hospital for several years. He saw scores of people that had died, or become seriously injured and disabled, because they didn't buckle up and got in a car wreck. He never saw ANYONE who got hurt or killed because they had been wearing their seatbelt.
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03-30-2002, 02:56 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Charleston, Arkansas USA
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I always wear my seatbelt no matter what I'm in. About a month ago there was an 18 year old girl that flipped her car and she wasn't wearing her seat belt. She was thrown from the car and it landed on her head. If she would have been wearing her seatbelt it could have made all the difference in the world.
------------------ Alma, AR 70' Chevy Shortwide Fleetside-bagged front and rear, 350/350 69' Chevelle 96' Camaro My Website
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03-30-2002, 02:57 PM
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Strongman Garage
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Salinas, CA
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i always wear mine....... if i didnt id be sliding all over the place around coroners
 ------------------ My Truck pictures www.xframeimpala.com 68 4x4 short fleetside 327 CH465 edelbrock intake and carb MSD distributor its the "SHAGROLET" 56 big window short stepside 235 dual 1 brls 64ImpalaSS 327 70 C10 LWB fleetside custom/10 350/TH350 IM me on aol SN= SHAGROLET
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03-30-2002, 03:19 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Houston, Pennsylvania
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ALWAYS!!
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03-30-2002, 03:22 PM
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Tha Russian Canadian
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Lethbridge, AB
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It's a habit...i don't even notice myself buckling up. All I know is any time I check, it's always on.
D!m ------------------ BlueStreak 69 Chevy C10 - (Under Construction) pos_8@hotmail.com
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03-30-2002, 03:28 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: TX
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I always wear mine.
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03-30-2002, 03:44 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Lancaster S.C.
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NO never.
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