[Shotimes] The Seat I Want

[Mark Nunnally]

>Roll cages also tend to negate the effect of a crumple
> zone. Instead of the car absorbing impact energy, your body is now
> taking a lot of that force which can be seriously dehabilitating if not
> deadly.

    That's true in a full tube frame chassis race car, where the tubing
extends all the way to the front of the car, but a production car with a
cage usually puts the tubing in the middle between the front and rear strut
towers.  Which still leaves all the sheetmetal forward (and behind the rear
towers) for absorbing a frontal impact.  This keeps the area between the
towers braced up fairly well, gives you at least a fighting chance.

mark