[Fot] SCCA Roll Cage Trivia - For The Chronologically Gifted

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Joe, Rocky, ..
 
    All of our ITA and ITS cars had full cages  back in the late 1980s, so I 
can't imagine that the production classes  (other than perhaps showroom stock) 
could have been running without full  cages before 2000. 
 
    I am also wondering whether the full  cage requirements were imposed at 
different times on open cars vs coupes,  sedans.
 
Cary
        
 
 
In a message dated 10/12/2007 2:12:17 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
rocky at spitfire4.com writes:

I think  it was probably 2000. That year I went to get an annual and flunked 
and  the front support was one of the reasons, so the tech inspector was nice 
 
enough to write nothing in my logbook. Since I was only planning to do a  
couple of regionals after not racing in '99, I bagged that and went and  
fixed the car instead. I have annuals in the book in 1999 and 2001 on  
adjacent pages -- until this year 2000 is the only gap since  1995.

In '72 only the roll bar was required by GCR. My car's logbooks  go back to 
then, when logbooks were first required, and the pictures in  that book show 
only a rollbar. Pictures in my second logbook, issued in  '79, also show only 
the bar. I don't think I put in the cage until the  early '80s, and even then 
it was not yet required.

--Rocky  Entriken







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