<VV> Shoulder belts kits

Dale Dewald dkdewald at pasty.net
Sun Aug 17 23:17:55 EDT 2008


At 21:05 8/17/2008 -0400, Bruce Schug wrote:

>Now there's a product for a Corvair vendor - a shoulder belt kit,
>complete with roof anchor, etc.

With all due respect, I do not think that this will happen--for liability 
reasons.  A vendor would have a very difficult, if not remote chance of 
defending himself in court in the case of litigation regarding an installed 
kit.  At the minimum, the design of any kit would have to be subjected to 
an engineering analysis (simulation of crash forces) and very likely crash 
testing with instrumented dummies.  Even then, there would be room for a 
jury to rule that there was some deficiency in the engineering of the kit.

Even if the kits were priced at $1000 I do not think there would be a way 
to recover the design and testing costs for such a small market, let alone 
the insurance policy.

Sorry....

Dale Dewald
Hancock, MI




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