At 9:05 PM 10/7/98, Frank LaHorgue wrote:

>The funny part of all this is that the Service Manager and the Parts
>Manager, both long time employees at my local VW Dealer, told me that there
>were no kits for installing shoulder belts in my Vanagon.  Furthermore, "if
>such things were available, it would be ILLEGAL for me to install them,"
>they said.
>

        HAH! They said similar things when I installed the shoulder belts
        in my '62 European Delivery 113 Type 1, IN 1962! A cousin sent me the
        belt set from Germany after I had already shipped the car to the
        US. Dealer insisted that they were illegal even though the car had
        the attachment points built-in!

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