Some people must have all the attention....
Herb
On 9/25/07, Wm. Severin Thompson <wsthompson@thicko.com> wrote:
>
> I suspect I'm one of the only list members that actually has survived a
> 100+mph rollover in a Sprite... it ain't pretty.
>
> http://www.thicko.com/ReadRatDeadRat.htm
>
> One of my very original race cars, "Walter", has well casing as a
> rollbar...
> apparently legal up to '67 when it was retired.
>
> http://www.thicko.com/Walter.htm
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spridgets-bounces+wsthompson=thicko.com@autox.team.net
> [mailto:spridgets-bounces+wsthompson=thicko.com@autox.team.net] On Behalf
> Of
> Robert Bruce Evans
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:07 PM
> To: Spridgets
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety
>
> With all of this talk about roll bars and safety, I am taken back to the
> halcyon days of the Golden Age of sports cars. Before a SCCA race,
> someone
> would rent a pipe bender, and out behind Small Car Motors we would all
> pitch
> in to help the newest Juan Manuel Fangio or challenger to Sterling Moss.
> Beginning with a piece of galvanized pipe (hmmm, was that 2" or 3"?), we
> would bend it and weld it to fit. I think the final step was the
> Wrigley's
> Spearmint gum to hold it in place. And they passed SC CA tech inspections
> in a breeze.
>
> Buster Evans
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