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imopar380 |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7207 Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | The original Forward Look Seat belt buckles made by Davis /Canadian Nameplate Manufacturing back in the 1950's early 1960s can be reproduced by the same company that made them originally. Hello, Would you consider reproducing sets of these original buckles you made for Chrysler Canada back in the late 1950s to early 60s? Hello, Ian.
100 buckles would total $12,500.00 plus and taxes and freight, in US dollars of course. Would there be enough of us interested? I would get 2 myself for the rear seat, as I already have 2 in front.
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Apollo 61 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 770 | Would they have webbing / floor hooks or just the buckle? Either way count me in! I have a different early style of mopar seat belt in one of my 61s (see attachment) It's hard to tell in the pic but,it says mopar with the flookerang Attachments ---------------- image.jpeg (137KB - 270 downloads) | ||
57DODGECONV |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 854 | Yes ,I’d be in for some for My 58 Mayfair Convertible . | ||
SavoyPlaza |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1172 Location: Georgia | I would be interested in 2 or 4! Thank you, Ian. Pete | ||
57burb |
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Expert Posts: 3967 Location: DFW, TX | I would be interested in a pair, but for that price I do expect them to be complete and ready to install with a couple of color options for the webbing. Thank you Ian! | ||
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Veteran Posts: 133 Location: Wyoming | Is there confirmation that the ‘set’ is enough for 2 passengers? I don’t read that in the reply from Davis and just want to make sure forum members and the manufacturer thinking along the same lines, as that could easily double the cost. I’d be interested in enough for four passengers. Might be interested in enough for eight passengers (2 cars) if that is actually only 4 sets. | ||
imopar380 |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7207 Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | At this point, until I hear more from Davis, I am assuming a set means one buckle, both halves. No webbing. $125.00 | ||
kcasey |
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Veteran Posts: 228 Location: fulshear texas | I would buy 4 of them for sure! | ||
58DeSoDodge59 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1115 Location: Wild Wonderful | I'm in for 4. | ||
Karlthecarguy |
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New User Posts: 4 | I’ll take 4! | ||
Darryl T |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 430 Location: McCleary WA | I had these made in Portland OR - full set of 6 with other half and webbing, for about the cost of one of these. Good enough for me. (Forward Look seat belt 1.JPG) Attachments ---------------- Forward Look seat belt 1.JPG (229KB - 261 downloads) | ||
Powerflite |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9708 Location: So. Cal | $125 each for just the buckle? You'll never sell enough of them at that price to break even. but looks like they figure in the overhead to get started and $12K is their minimum overhead value to consider doing it. Seeing how each car requires at least 4 buckles, that's only enough for 25 cars. I need 6 for my cars. If you can get the price down, you should be able to sell more than that, but get them down to around $50 each, at least. Ask him a price for 500 and 1000 parts to see how it decreases with quantity. When going into manufacturing, you have to make a financial commitment to even think about it. | ||
imopar380 |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7207 Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | OK everyone, SO the latest news from Davis is that they can reproduce the buckles but they CANNOT put the Forward Look Logo on them as it is a Registered Trademark. So this thread is done. Wish they had told me that in the first place. | ||
Powerflite |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9708 Location: So. Cal | I would be surprised if the registration for that logo is active. They haven't used it since 1960 and a lot of the old symbols were never registered. They only registered them if they continued to use them or if they thought they would. You can do a search for all the logos & trademarks owned by CHRYSLER CORPORATION here. You can also click the image list option to make it easier to scroll through and see all the images. I didn't see it in there. If we could prove to them that it was not active, would they go ahead? http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?state=4809:ad5gav.8.501&f=to... Edited by Powerflite 2019-09-17 6:22 PM | ||
imopar380 |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7207 Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | If someone else wants to take this further, I'm finished at this point. I've been dealing with sales@davisaircraft.com | ||
1960fury |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7432 Location: northern germany | Powerflite - 2019-09-17 6:08 PM I would be surprised if the registration for that logo is active. They haven't used it since 1960 and a lot of the old symbols were never registered. They only registered them if they continued to use them or if they thought they would. You can do a search for all ... And I would be surprised if Chrysler is the owner of the trademark now. | ||
Powerflite |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9708 Location: So. Cal | The trademark list for FCA is VERY short. They don't redo all the trademarks once a company changes names. The new company just takes over all the previous ones. | ||
56D500boy |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9926 Location: Lower Mainland BC | Yesterday, while looking for something for one of my 56 Dodge projects at Michaels (of all places), I discovered "Cricut". Cricut is an automated system/machine that can be used to cut an number of materials, including sticky vinyl. It can be used to cut/print names, logos, shapes, etc. The shapes can be from a jpg, like say a Fookerang image jpg. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&biw=1743&bih=866&tb... The vinyl sheets come in a variety of colours including metallics. Hmm....Makes one think about what could be done. Here is a tutorial video about importing an image and cutting it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im09Q2qalwU https://cricut.com/en_us/cricut-maker Edited by 56D500boy 2019-09-18 12:35 PM | ||
Apollo 61 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 770 | Not to derail the thread,but I snapped a pic of these seat belts that are in my no options 61 savoy. It's a dept of the Navy car from Mare Island Naval weapons station. In 61 they were building Atomic subs there. These buckles have the Atom symbol on them. 61 navy issued ? Attachments ---------------- image.jpeg (198KB - 282 downloads) | ||
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