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Mail From: "Robert Mangas" <(email redacted)>


It doesn't matter until you get rear-ended or exuberantly toss your car
off an embankment. Roll bar padding is like a seatbelt- most of the time
it's not doing anything at all.

Robert

>From: "Rawson Groves Hobart" <(email redacted)>
>To: <(email redacted)>, <(email redacted)>
>Subject: RE: [Miata] Roll Bar
>Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:02:14 -0800
>
>I have some padding on the HDHCDD in my M2. I doubt it matters much except
>for scuffing when I am in a helmet, but at 6'1"+ I found I was knocking my
>noggin driving around town.
> Rawson
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: (email redacted) [mailto:(email redacted)]On Behalf
>Of Fred Hubert
>Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 7:32 AM
>To: (email redacted); (email redacted)
>Subject: [Miata] Roll Bar
>
>
>Well, I've decided to bite the bullet and get a roll bar for my '95.
>Currently
>I only autocross, but I would prefer to be track-legal just in case (That
>damned Mel planted a bug in my head!!!).
>
>Seems like the HDHC would be the right bar for me, no? Is it the clear
>choice
>over the other brands? Should I get padding or is it unnecessary?
>Diagonals
>-- yes, no, how many?
>
>And what does this bar do to my aspirations of getting a hardtop or a new
>soft
>top with glass window?
>
>I did search .net to little avail and the powerlist search isn't working...
>
>TIA,
>~ Fred
>
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