Bruce Adams
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This post is five years old and YES, leather belts, even at MArshalls are around $25 for a 36 inch one which is much more popular than twice that in thick, untreated leather.
Wow! $35 for a leather strap?
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DougVieyra
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If you rarely use your accessory trunk, then the two straps make an nice 'finishing touch' of nostalgia - a visual piece of frosting that enhances the appearance of the trunk.
If you use your trunk frequently, you will most likely find it a real pain-in-the-*** to constantly have to buckle and unbuckle to gain access to your trunk's contents.
40 years ago I removed my leather straps and stowed them in the trunk. The four clasps and two latches work just fine to secure the lid. At the same time I removed the leather straps, I also bolted my accessory trunk to my original fixed trunk rack, so I don't need the straps to secure my trunk to the trunk rack.
If you use your trunk frequently, you will most likely find it a real pain-in-the-*** to constantly have to buckle and unbuckle to gain access to your trunk's contents.
40 years ago I removed my leather straps and stowed them in the trunk. The four clasps and two latches work just fine to secure the lid. At the same time I removed the leather straps, I also bolted my accessory trunk to my original fixed trunk rack, so I don't need the straps to secure my trunk to the trunk rack.
5window
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Yeah, if you live in those areas, there are a lot of very interesting things at the harness and farm shops you wouldn't think were available anymore.
As an aside, my Mennonite-steel wheel tractor- neighbors now put up my hay. Instead of my wife and me struggling with 70 year old equipment and taking a chance of work vs weather, they cut it (ALWAYS on time and dry and I don't know how), bale it, take it away, buy what I don't need out of my half and pay me a good price right away. Great folks to be neighbors with. Don't ask me how my "English" neighbor screwed it up the one season I let him do it.
CarlG
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My friend has a trunk in the bed of his pickup. It's one that Snyder's sells. He does use his trunk often and it was a PITA to buckle it all the time. He fashioned the straps so that it "looks" buckled but really isn't. Just uses the latches to keep it closed. Pretty neat setup.
DougVieyra
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CarlG, post #26:
"He fashioned the straps so that it "looks" buckled but really isn't."
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Yes, Carl, I have seen a couple of original (circa 1920-'30s) trunks that were factory made that way. And for forty years, I have been meaning to 'getting around to it' to do the same thing on my trunk.
Your friend did not wait 40 years - smart man.
"He fashioned the straps so that it "looks" buckled but really isn't."
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Yes, Carl, I have seen a couple of original (circa 1920-'30s) trunks that were factory made that way. And for forty years, I have been meaning to 'getting around to it' to do the same thing on my trunk.
Your friend did not wait 40 years - smart man.
Man, you want cheap beer,too?
For you beer men in the Northeast-try Yards All out of Philadelphia-a very nice Microbrew-in the low 30's for a case-better buy 4 of those belts so you can save enough for real beer..
Yuengling, the oldest brewery in America tastes fine by me.............
on ebay- I buy leather strapping material often and use a rivet gun to install.
For you beer men in the Northeast-try Yards All out of Philadelphia-a very nice Microbrew-in the low 30's for a case-better buy 4 of those belts so you can save enough for real beer..
Yuengling, the oldest brewery in America tastes fine by me.............
on ebay- I buy leather strapping material often and use a rivet gun to install.