FW: belts and harnesses

["Jorge Mazlumian" <jmazl@domain.elided>]

Simon Favre wrote:
<<Well, I didn't want to "out" this on the digest, but I've rewebbed a
set for my '67 GTV. <snip>  A new racing harness will stretch
about 6 inches in the worst frontal impact a driver could be expected
to survive. After 5 years, it's 12 inches. How old are your belts? ;=( >>

If they keep stretching by 6 inches every 5 years, the belt in my 74 GTV
would stretch about 30 inches (I'm sure it would).  That's quite a shock
absorber, kind of a bungy rope.
Jorge

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