The main reason I want to bolt in my rollbar is to have an attachment point
for over the shoulder seat belts. After looking at the frame and body
layout of my TR4, I thought the best would be to fashion together a welded
steel square tube assembly to mount under the parcel seat and connect the
rollbar to the frame.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Pete & Aprille Chadwell <dynamic@transport.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 7:52 PM
Subject: TR6 roll bars
>
>Frank Biedermann wrote:
>>For those of you with roll bars on your TR6 (or other convertibles) -
>>where are the mounting brackets for it bolted to? It seems to me that
>>a dodgy way of mounting one is just to bolt it to the parcel shelf
>>behind the seats (not something I would want to do), but surely
>>commercially installed roll-bars would be somehow attached to the
>>frame through the shelf (or am I just being optimistic here)?
>
>Sorry Frank, you're apparently under the impression that something called a
>"roll bar" or "roll-over bar" would actually be designed to prevent serious
>injury if you were to roll your car. How silly of you.
>
>My roll bar, and every other roll bar that I've seen in STREET TR6's are
>simply bolted, with backing plates, to the parcel shelf. I was just about
>to write that it's better than NO roll bar, but I'm not so sure. They are
>generally more for appearance than actual function as far as I'm concerned.
>I'd be interested to hear from other more knowledgeable listers about
>whether ANY roll bar is better than none for safety purposes. I suspect it
>would be, but sometimes these things are counter-intuitive.
>
>Imagine, for example, in a roll-over with one of these wimpy bars... if (or
>when) it collapses, is it going to collapse right onto (into) your noggin?
>Then again, without the bar the EARTH itself will "collapse" into your
>noggin. Take your pick.
>
>Bottom line, buy one or don't, but fer Chrissakes, drive safe! (but have
fun!)
>
>Pete Chadwell
>1973 TR6
>
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