Re: Roll bar rationale

[Ian Lomax <sfalfisto@domain.elided>]

for me, the same logic applies.  as well as providing
a convenient place to mount three point belts in my
lap belt only spider.

on a recent tour, an aquaintence almost killed us when
the control arm in his fiat spider broke.  if we had
left the road we would have ended up upside-down in a
rocky ditch, where the Fiat's rollbar probably would
have done little good.  luckily we kept all four
wheels on pavement.  the lesson there was never push a
car whose condition is unknown.  this spider had
recently emerged from a warehouse after who-knows how
long in storage.

cheers,
ian lomax

--- Joe Martin Cantrell <agiyo@domain.elided> wrote:
> 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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