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Re: [Spridgets] bugeye roll bar

To: Chris King <cbking@alum.rpi.edu>, derf <derf247@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] bugeye roll bar
From: <bighealey@charter.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:25:49 -0500
I witnessed a Bugeye rollover (no roll bar).  It was not pretty but both driver 
and passanger survived relativly uninjured.  The passanger was thrown clear and 
the driver ducked into the newly vacated passanger seat.

When we rebuilt the replacement car the rollbar was fabed up by a specialist 
for a few hundred bucks.

I put one in the Green Meanie (Spridget).

---- derf <derf247@gmail.com> wrote: 
> Yeah, Kirk=good.
> 
> A roll bar does several things:
> 1.  Looks cool.  Makes the car look sporty.
> 2.  Stiffens the body.  Good on Spridgets and Miatas, for sure.
> 3.  Provides protection.  You don't want to roll over.  You REALLY
> don't want to roll over without a bar in a convertible.
> 
> There is a video of a guy racing a Triumph that looses an axle at
> speed.  His roll bar functioned properly.  I think he walked away.
> Someone can post a link.
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