Passenger Side Roll Hoop

[digginfool]

And I'm still undecided. Leaning more towards using another vehicle to gain solo status. I wonder if they'll let me take my wife's Excursion on the track. Maybe my Monaco Executive motorcoach. Nah. I'll rent a Focus from Hertz for the weekend. Seriously, though, I really haven't made up my mind regarding the 'look.' Mtpockets' BDR is gorgeous (only because it looks exactly like mine sans dual hoop and decals) but I love the single hoop look as well. It's a tough decision. After I saw the flip in the "Don't Do This" thread, I was convinced I wanted a second roll hoop just in case because you never know and anybody in the passenger seat during that flip was dead. There was zero protection. I do have to say I find it very humorous how the SPF and ERA guys want to knock down the BDR and FFR guys. At the end of the day, they're all replicas. It's kind of like Cubans and Puerto Ricans. They each think they're better but they only grew up on islands two hundred miles apart from each other and both share the same heritage.

[xb-60]

Originally Posted by digginfool

And I'm still undecided....
...After I saw the flip in the "Don't Do This" thread, I was convinced I wanted a second roll hoop just in case because you never know and anybody in the passenger seat during that flip was dead. There was zero protection.

Yep, saw the "Don't do this" too. I can't work out why that car flipped. A friend flipped his car when he came around a corner, onto an 'unannounced' resealed section of road, the type where they spray on tar and then spread gravel. In a couple of seconds he went from wheels on the road to wheels in the air. No roll hoop/loop/bar, lucky to be alive, car needing 'some bodywork'.
So, I know it happens, but at the same time how common is it? A Cobra, with its c-of-g maybe 18" off the ground, must be just about impossible to flip unless you hit something. How many have personal experience of a rollover?

If you go ahead with fitting a second one, what about painting/powdercoating it black? Less obvious that a pair of chromies...
Cheers,
Glen