[T3] A new T-34 owner?

[Jim Adney]

On 27 Jun 2011 at 0:15, John Jaranson wrote:

> Got a few more things done on Jill's Ghia over the weekend.  I got the
> new 3-point retractable seat belts installed.  I had to make a
> reinforcement for the floor anchor.  Used a the portion of the center
> tunnel from the scrap pan that had the seat belt anchors.  I re-shaped
> the tunnel sheet metal so that I could bolt the seat belt to it
> through the floor pan.  Also was able to remove one of the pan to body
> bolts and sandwich the new reinforcement between the u-shaped body
> washer and the floorpan.  It is as strong as I can make it without
> taking the body off and welding a larger reinforcement into the
> floorpan or inside of the rocker. 

> Besides it has to be way better than the shoulder-only belts that I
> replaced. <G> 

I'm confused. The Ghia had inner anchor points and outer upper anchor 
points, but no outer lower points? And shoulder only belts? That's 
bizarre! This is a '67, right? I'm astonsihed that VW didn't have all 
3 points in all their cars by now. If it didn't have the outer upper, 
that might not be too surprising, but no outer lower...?

The US required lap belts starting in '64. Now I'm wondering if the 
requirement might have been loosely written so that any kind of belt 
would have sufficed. I know these cars weren't sold in the US, but I 
think even my '62 beetle had all 3 (or at least the lower 2) mount 
points.

The mount points that were there, were they the later 7/16" thread 
size, or the early ~1" size?

How about some of you out there with '67 fastys and squares; what did 
they have for mount points? I know '67 beetles had all 3.


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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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