unsafe at any speed but he liked the 510!

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unsafe at any speed but he liked the 510!

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must have been doing a good clip to move that strut tower back so far :shock:
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just looking at he steering wheel make my chest hurt........must toss my 68 column
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zoinks!
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Would wonder if he even had seat belts. Whitebird didn't come to me with belts; I'm not sure they were compulsory in JDM land back then.

Still, that appears to be a pretty good crash performance by such an old car...
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We just don't want to crash these tin cans at ANY time!
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okayfine wrote:Would wonder if he even had seat belts. Whitebird didn't come to me with belts; I'm not sure they were compulsory in JDM land back then.

Still, that appears to be a pretty good crash performance by such an old car...

interesting......so for what market was the rear shoulder belt provisions intended ?
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Saw this on FaceBook earlier. Not much to save really.
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bah lots of good parts....... he will make more from the bits than than a running project on craigslist
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RMS wrote:interesting......so for what market was the rear shoulder belt provisions intended ?
I don't know. As far as I know the factory never supplied any 510 with rear 3-point belts. The easiest conclusion to make is that they thought it would become a requirement in the US and engineered it in the beginning. Seat belt requirements themselves were a new thing in '68 (at least here in the USA, MY68 was the first year belts were required).
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b pillar just up from the parcel shelf Image
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Oh, I know about the mount on the c-pillar, but AFAIK Datsun never used it.
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