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1. [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: James Gruber <thistle_3619@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:57:47 -0700 (PDT); You need to think about more than a rollover when you install one of these in our cars. A friend locally with a really nice '72 wti 1380 and 5 speed got T-Boned by a Buick blowing through a stop sign; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00658.html (8,603 bytes)
2. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: derf <derf247@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:05:17 -0600; Like I said in the other post, not just good for overhead protection. _______________________________________________ Edit your replies http://www.team.net/archive http://autox.team.net/mailman/listi; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00661.html (8,024 bytes)
3. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: derf <derf247@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:16:58 -0600; Roll bars are mostly sought after for safety reasons and because they look good or sporty. But, don't waste your money on something just for looks. They sell "style bars" for Miatas that look nice, 3; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00662.html (9,205 bytes)
4. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: "Robert Bruce Evans" <b-evans@earthlink.net>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:07:06 -0700; 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; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00665.html (8,627 bytes)
5. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:21:28 -0500; 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, "W; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00666.html (9,518 bytes)
6. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: "WFO Herb" <froggi60@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:42:42 -0700; Some people must have all the attention.... _______________________________________________ Edit your replies http://www.team.net/archive http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spridgets; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00667.html (10,331 bytes)
7. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:45:47 -0500; LOL. hell, my ribs still hurt when I sneeze. 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 member; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00670.html (8,919 bytes)
8. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:25:05 -0500; All this talk about roll bars and how large of tubing and how thick and how they are mounted and how they are so necessary to save your bacon leads me to ask you all this: if the convertible we were; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00675.html (9,059 bytes)
9. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:40:39 -0500; Then again Larry, you own a street Sprite that was rolled... so...??? --Original Message-- From: spridgets-bounces+wsthompson=thicko.com@autox.team.net [mailto:spridgets-bounces+wsthompson=thicko.com; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00676.html (9,510 bytes)
10. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:42:14 -0500; So, are you saying that you would install a roll bar in "any" convertible you own and drive on the street? Careful, I already know the answer to that. LAD Then again Larry, you own a street Sprite th; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00677.html (10,144 bytes)
11. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:47:15 -0500; No... and John Sprinzel and I agree that if you have a car without a roll bar, that having seat belts can be as much of a problem as a solution. So, are you saying that you would install a roll bar i; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00678.html (8,679 bytes)
12. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: derf <derf247@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:58:27 -0600; If I had a '64 Impala I would not have a roll bar, for the stylish reasons mentioned. But, since I drive the roadster "spiritedly", I feel safer with the bar. Here's an example where no one was serio; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00682.html (8,643 bytes)
13. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: "Wm. Severin Thompson" <wsthompson@thicko.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:33:03 -0500; 10 Miata's down, 2,999,990 to go. --Original Message-- From: spridgets-bounces+wsthompson=thicko.com@autox.team.net [mailto:spridgets-bounces+wsthompson=thicko.com@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of derf S; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00684.html (9,317 bytes)
14. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: Robert Weeks <lists@woozy.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:08:59 -0400; Hey Derf, I've never cared for the look of a roll bar on a Spridget which is the one thing other than money that holds me back from getting one. Now if that roll bar did double duty as a gun rack you; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00688.html (8,396 bytes)
15. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: "WFO Herb" <froggi60@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:02:59 -0700; To my knowledge (and having been a VW-Porsche-Audi dealer), the federal law that mandated roll bars in ALL convertibles produced after 1981 has never been repealed. VW was the first manufacture to co; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00708.html (8,639 bytes)
16. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: derf <derf247@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:54:38 -0500; I think that law also has provisions for the windsheild frame supporting the weight of the car if inverted. I believe a roll bar is mandated if the windshield frame can't support the weight of the ca; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00709.html (8,451 bytes)
17. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: Bill L <pythias@pacifier.com>; Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:14:04 -0700; Hello WFO, here's what happened... they TALKED about setting roll over standards... then when they did an analysis of the crash data they found that the cars that actually rolled over in REAL world a; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00746.html (9,393 bytes)
18. Re: [Spridgets] Rollbar and Spridget Safety (score: 1): Author: "Brad Fornal" <tequila.brad@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:47:08 -0500; With all this talk about roll bars, and Spridget safety, I wanted to share a story I heard about this evening. My friend with the Drag Sprite was running on Test and Tune night, on an 1/8 mile track.; /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00778.html (11,087 bytes)

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