It’s not often that I agree with that ……guy with two roll bars
but IMO, a padded roll bar has value. So I set out to build something that offers a minimum level of protection, but is not a visual catastrophic abortion.
So I got out some fiber-board and duct tape and started cutting and bending. Sitting in the car and feeling for the contact points, I formed simple sheet skeleton over the front of bars where your head would touch in a crash. Once I had the shape, we (Body shop foreman and great fabricator) duplicated it out of .100 sheet aluminum, formed it over some scrap tubing and welded the pieces together. He then added about a inch of high density foam a stitched up a fantastic black vinyl cover and some heavy duty Velcro straps. It’s nice because it offer the impact protection, but is almost unnoticeable when installed and comes right off if you want. We have plans to build and sell the standard roll bar version.
