Cobra crash, no seatbelts

[raybones]

I wear my lap belt every time in my Cobra, so does any passenger. To be 100% honest though I have never used the shoulder restraints.

[tortuga]

Originally Posted by raybones

I wear my lap belt every time in my Cobra, so does any passenger. To be 100% honest though I have never used the shoulder restraints.

For anything that involves leaving the driveway. Theres a reason ALL modern cars have shoulder belts…i dont want to peel my wifes beautiful face out of the dasboard when we get rear ended…

[86Sebring]

Originally Posted by tortuga

For anything that involves leaving the driveway. Theres a reason ALL modern cars have shoulder belts…i dont want to peel my wifes beautiful face out of the dasboard when we get rear ended…

Totally agree, seatbelts at all times.
seems to me, unless you're wearing a HANS device, if you get rear ended, your head will go backwards, not forwards...

[1795]

Originally Posted by 86Sebring

Totally agree, seatbelts at all times.
seems to me, unless you're wearing a HANS device, if you get rear ended, your head will go backwards, not forwards...

Unless you are wearing a HANS device attached to a helmet, your head goes both directions. When your head goes backwards your brain bounces off the front of your skull as it is sitting in fluid and then it bounces towards the back of your skull and makes contact. Of course as the brain is flying back and forth there are a lot of neurons that have the axions torn or damaged as they are not exactly rubber bands. Then there is that little whiplash thing happening with your neck and spinal column.

[USC_COWBOY]

Originally Posted by raybones

I wear my lap belt every time in my Cobra, so does any passenger. To be 100% honest though I have never used the shoulder restraints.

Start using the shoulder restraints immediately. My father, Paul Cunningham, was a Cobra privateer, campaigning against the factory team cars, on that fateful day in November, 1963 he was leading the last race of the day at Willow Springs Raceway near Tehachapi California. He was temporarily blinded by the setting sun in the last corner, put two left wheels off the paved surface onto the loose earth, flipped and tumbled for the length of a football field, lap belts only as that was all that was required. Died instantly from blunt force trauma to his head as he impacted the steering wheel/column. Shoulder restraints were immediately required as safety equipment. You can save yourself, wear them religiously, fifty years later I miss my dad. RIP