We all know it's dangerous, but seems like this car wasn't built with good safety measures. Looks like a bolt in cage?
View: https://youtu.be/l6Xvvnsv150
View: https://youtu.be/l6Xvvnsv150
In the vid, I thought I saw somebody lift the rear of the car off of the ground..
These guys removed every piece of inner structure they could, and left the skin.
And when the car wrecked, it tore to pieces because there was nothing tying the car together ( not even a cage). After all,..they were able to take the guy out through the top of the car, over the gauge cluster.
Completely typical of the car that usually shows up at the backwoods tracks here in the south.
A friend of mine lost control and hit a telephone pole in his convertible. The only thing that saved him was the back flip he did into the back seat before impact.
I had a 10 point cage from S & W Racing in my convertible. My head would've been on the halo if I had factory seats.
Speaking of factory seats.....I've seen that guy and another friend loose control because the factory seat back broke. The other friend did a nitrous test hit...by the time he got his fingers back on the steering wheel he was about 100ft in a graveyard. I was there for that one. All you could see is his hands up grabbing air.
Before I got Sparcos I would wedge a plastic crate behind the seat....just in case.
The guy in the video was super lucky he lived. I hate the idea of putting a cage in Dusty... but that video makes me think, too.
He did have a cage in the car, watch the end where he is at the gas station. It looks like a bolt in deal though. Definitely makes me want to go full weld in. Maybe you just don't see it in the video, but was he even wearing a helmet?
Joe
That was a hoop to hold his nitrous bottle, not a cage. Early in the video you see them pick up the rear of the car and drop it and the bottle flops around. This guy was really stupid and he paid only a small price for it.He did have a cage in the car, watch the end where he is at the gas station. It looks like a bolt in deal though. Definitely makes me want to go full weld in. Maybe you just don't see it in the video, but was he even wearing a helmet?
Joe