Let's see your roll cages and safety features

As a restorer/owner/builder of more than a few 28-29 A's I agree whole heartledly with you about the need for more steel in these cars....that was not the point of my post. Besides, a single hoop sitting behind you isn't going to do much for side impact protection...and if the hoop is sitting next to/over your head then it might as well be a loaded gun pointed at your head. Yes, shoulder bars will help some but thats not really a good way to do it on a street car you actually have to get in and out of and if your going to use clip-in/swing-out shoulder bars you might as well have nothing there in regard to stiffening the chassis/body is concerned. Decent side impact protection and body reinforcement is typically built into the structure of the car just behind the sheetmetal with minimal intrusion into the interior compartment.....steel bars/tubes/reinforcement that run perimeter of the car...for example in my dad's coupe we're running bars and tubes inside the sheetmetal from the door pillars around back to a bulkhead behind the driver and that'll be tied the subrails/frame - this is about shoulder height, just under the side window in a '29 coupe. There is a halo of tubing up overhead attached to the roof, roof sides and rear bulkhead but it will be located under the headliner and the areas around my head will be relieved and/or vacant of any near-by tubing.

But thats not my point, my point is that its basically stupid to have a big honk'n roll bar close to your head out on the street where a relatively low speed impact could have a huge impact on the rest of your life. Its simple physics. Your skull will break, your brain will be damaged and the roll bar will shine up good as new when all is said and done. I HAVE used roll bars in my street cars, I am a high performance driving instructor at Watkins Glen and I sometimes use my street car to take students out on the track to show them some lines or techniques. The bar is located behind me with plenty of room between my head and the bar. It a typical early coupe you don't have that option and you really should be careful with what you put near your head and where.

-Bigchief.

 

Anymore cage's to show ?

 

I hope so

 

Rolling Bones' design and cage. Hope they don't mind if I post these. Bolts in, and comes out of car when required.

 

KIWI STEVE'S
ALLOWS PASSENGER SEAT



AS YOU CAN SEE, I'M INTO THE RACING STYLED CAGES...NOT SURE IF THEY ARE STREETABLE OR NOT. I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I BUILD MINE

 

more cages... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=338686

 

Bringing this back to the top as I am looking for ideas for a 4-point rollbar for my A Tudor. I'm wanting to do a bolt in rollbar that would bolt through the floor and into the frame rails. Ideally it would have a harness bar for mounting 4-point harnesses to. The car will primarily be a street car with the occasional trip to the drag strip a couple times per year.

 

Well, here's mine - not really streetable, but its a race car.

 

I'll play. Just to keep some ideas flowing, here's a LINK to one I did. The body has a length of 1/8" plate bent on a 90 (welded to the floor) that runs the length of the frame and provides the mounting surface. The cage is welded to that and the cage stays in the body when pulled off the frame. Bolts go through the plate down into the frame rails.