Roll bar rationale

[Joe Martin Cantrell <agiyo@domain.elided>]

Collected wisdom of all...do spiders really roll over that often? I hear about
people installing roll bars and wonder if they are really that necessary
unless your going racing.

The roll bar permanently *ruins* the lines of my '72 Spider, primarily 
because of street threats, although it also qualifies to take the car out 
on AROO track days.

Seeing Bob Hui's GTV6 after a Camry T-boned it in the passenger door 
convinced me.  He had just let his daughter off at day care; had she been 
aboard it would have been ugly.  An Alfetta GT at Nasko's is further proof, 
same thing except the T-boner was an SUV, the driver's mother was aboard, 
and she was killed.

I figure I'm much more likely to be hit by some cell-phone-impaired moron 
on the street than to flip the car, but I don't want my passengers to join 
me without knowing I've been responsible about doing what I can to protect 
them.  The roll bar is probably little protection against side impact, or a 
Suburban coming over the back, but it is something.  The only alternative 
would be to give up driving the Spider, in our decreasingly attentive 
society.  It is why I quit riding motorcycles after 35 years, but I'm not 
willing to give up the Alfa yet.

The roll bar, meager as it is, is what I can do.

YMWV,
Joe
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