Rear shoulder belt anchor point

[irienz]

The upper end of the front seatbelts in my 411 are mounted at the top of the rear inner guards. Several years ago the mountings were discovered to be badly corroded and the restorer reported that he had been able to pull belt mount out of the guard easily by hand so watchfulness of structural integrity is certainly essential!

I fitted lap belts only in the rear of the 411 because of the lack of a proper upper mount, the inner rear guard already bearing the front upper mount. I obtained an engineer's report that the 411 lacked anything sufficiently structural for a mounting in order to obtain an exemption from the usual three-point belt requirement in New Zealand when it was imported here. I would not have thought that the rear parcel shelf was an adequate mounting surface.

Chris Browne