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Re: [oletrucks] those kids and their hot rods

To: "Bob KNOTTS" <raknotts@qwest.net>
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] those kids and their hot rods
From: Wayne Osborne <wayne@chevytrucks.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:39:39 -0500
My oh my-- Jack Halton has submitted an article for 
http://www.chevytrucks.org  techs section on installing Juliano's kit in a 
vintage truck.  Its been there long time.. --wayne



At 02:46 PM 10/28/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Tim, do you have a website address or anything for Juliano's three point
>belts ? Thanks, Bob K in PHX, AZ
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "tim" <lloydt@Colorado.EDU>
>To: "Dana Muise" <dana@spazzco.com>
>Cc: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:45 PM
>Subject: Re: [oletrucks] those kids and their hot rods
>
>
> > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Dana Muise wrote:
> >
> > > The restoration of my '59 is going to take longer now. On Sautrday
> > > some 18 year old kid, driving 80 mph+ in a hopped up Honda lost
> > > control on highway 101 and fish tailed into my truck. 2002 Honda
> > > Prelude v.s 1959 Chevy Apache... no contest. Although my front fender
> > > is totally crushed, that honda bounced off me like a rubber ball. He
> > > was okay, but the CHP were amazed to see a bent fender on my truck
> > > while the Honda was a pile of twisted wreckage.  Driving a classic
> > > truck is like driving a Sherman tank, but I only have lap belts. Had I
> > > hit the imbankment I would have been severly injured (that's if the
> > > lab belts actually held me in place). If I get an insurance claim form
> > > this I'm getting Sholder belts installed.
> >
> > Major bummer.  Glad to hear you (and the truck) are OK.  They sure don't
> > make 'em like they used to -- I recently spun out my "other car", an 84
> > Mazda 626, and dinged a tree at 15 mph.  Looks like I got hit by a freight
> > train.
> >
> > On another note, I would highly recommend Juliano's 3-point seatbelts.
> > Took me a night to install, and my '54 is much safer.
> >
> >
> > Tim Lloyd, lloyd@lasp.colorado.edu
> > "Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been
> > sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful,
> > rebellious, and immature." -- Tom Robbins
> > "The eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the
> > planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed
> > by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace."
> > -- John F. Kennedy
> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959

Wayne Osborne
1956 Chevy Pickup
LaGrange Ga.
http://www.chevytrucks.org
http://www.chevytrucks.org/wayne
oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959

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