there is a company listed in hemmings called "snake oyl products" i believe
it is. i do remember their advertising new webbing in colors but do not
recall their doing the rewebbing work. forthe "vintage car crowd" seat
belts are a rather new thing. and belts with retractors welllllll, they
are just a new fangled fancy thing. unfortunatly i fear that there are not
a lot of business's that would be rebuilding seat belts just based upon
shear number of diffrent designs and insurance liability if failure occured
after rebuilding. the racing belt industry will re-web a set of their own
belts but not another manufacturers belts due to the possibility of failure
in materials/hardware that are not of their specific manufacture.(and
then..pyrotect wich is bell refused to reweb a set i had due to their
changing hardware suppliers and the set i had was no longer in their
inventory.....so i turned them in to simpson as a trade for a discount on my
new cam loc set for the 1959/60 saab sedan!) i needed a real nice
turquoise left retractor for the restoration of my wife's 67 impala fast
back 5 years ago and was lucky enough to find the exact color belt from an
impala restoration specialist. now i would think that lbc belts that are
from any era in good serviceable shape are going to be difficult to locate.
they were frequently ignored tucked under seats and got wet frequently wich
has ruined many sets long before the seat belt laws came into play(at least
here in the north east).
chuck.
----- Original Message -----
From Graziano, Michael <michael.graziano at csfb.com>
To: 'Spridgets' <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Cc: <metaz76@earthlink.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 5:56 PM
Subject: FW: Seat Belts
> All,
>
> Can anyone offer any advice out there? We just had a similar discussion,
> only on custom race belts... Chuck?
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip [mailto:metaz76@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 12:38 PM
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Seat Belts
>
>
>
> Has anyone had new straps put on the original seat belt hardware? I
> remember this coming up a while back and everyone was saying that it is
> illegal to take belts out of a junk yard, but wasn't sure if it was legal
> to have the originals repaired. The belts in my 76 are in pretty bad
> shape, and I would feel better having new straps put on them. I looked at
> replacing the seat belts but I like the style of the original ones. I
have
> called a few places and nobody around here knows who I can call about
> having them repaired. Thanks for any help.
>
> Phillip
>
> Phillip Edwards
> metaz76@earthlink.net
> http://home.earthlink.net/~metaz76
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