History Vintage/period correct roll bar photo thread

This looks like Tom McMullin’s deuce roadster in a livery I’ve not seen before, before the iconic black and flames. Never knew it was green.

 

hotrodA, it was painted green metalflake, when metalflake was new. I heard it didn't come out very good, and was removed soon after.

 

I thinking the extra hoop was added to meet a new minimum height requirement.

 

Ivo's "revenge" T

 

Torque tube roll bar

 

Prior to overhead rollbars, The Carrillo Roadster had a duck under rollbar. In the picture is HAMBer Frank Morawski checking out the duck under rollbar as well as the center mass heart Impaler steering column. The car shows as built in 1948
The finished car at Pebble Beach 2010

 

I spoke with guys that drove roadsters and midgets back in the day with the form fitting rollbars that were about 2" off the body work. They hoped for snap rolls rather than lazy barrel rolls. If they had any room they slid down in the seat and kinda ducked and covered. Steering wheels were better than seat belts at holding you in and they were more afraid of fire than rollovers.

 

1st picture is 1st day out in 1962 at Westhampton drag strip LI NY.
2nd picture around 1964 at Dover Drag strip Wingdale NY.
3rd picture at Lebanon Valley Drag strip NY 2019.

Pat

 

Fire still scares me, the idea of being trapped in a burning car is terrifying, and these modern cars are closed up I am shocked no one has burned to death!

 

Bud Hinman with his Super Mod...


...Yes the same Bud Hinman who built this car


Ollie Silva Super Mod

 

I hope that helps, as I blow them up they got blurry.

 

From above -

Hmm, not even "shoulder..." protection !



Mike

 

Thanks, I can kinda make out what is going on there.

 

The Bannister Bros. Dragster




Big Daddy

 

Joaquin Arnett of the Bean Bandits

 

I remember reading an interview with David Pearson and he said one of his first race cars used the headboard of a steel bed frame as a roll bar. If I remember correctly, it fell on him during a race. A lot of these look like bedframes.

 

old Friday Art
Hello,

The Forsberg Brothers, Denny and Jerry, along with their friend John Middleton were involved in quite a few race cars. One was this very cool roadster the Forsberg Brothers built, raced it, and then sold to John Middleton. They raced it at their home court, Fremont Dragstrip in Northern California. Near the Westcoast GM factory where our red El Camino was made in 1964.

The legal roll bar style/function did well for protection and design. The roadster had a great stance, did well for both the brothers and their friend in the competitive races.

Jnaki

One thing always helps, they worked at Vic Hubbard’s Speed Shop and were involved in the cars that came out of that shop.

The Forsberg Brothers went on to an Altered Roadster Bantam modified and then eventually, went to the Junior Fuel Class for FED race cars.



at Lion’s Dragstrip

 

This cracks me up. It's not IF your gonna be upside down, it's WHEN. This just makes it easier to roll it back over.

 

That was a fairly common set up in eastern NY and VT as they would often run mixed fields of roadsters and stock cars

 

Some give new meaning to roll bars, sorta like combination racing & amusement ride.

 

For some reason drivers were convinced they could be able to bend over at the waist and hold themselves low enough to be safe. Of course that was nonsense and soon disallowed. The same thing for arm restraints which were first added to rule book in the late 70’s.

 

Roll bar/seat

 

Yeah you were racing Chevies with 210 on their hoods. This was after the multi carb ban in March/April 1956.

 

The So-Cal Coupe