"SCCA-Legal" Roll Bars
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 8:17 am
The other day I looked at a car a local guy wants to hillclimb. He told me it had a roll bar in it that the maker advertised as "meeting SCCA Specs". Well, yeah,......it meets the specs for autocrossing I suppose, but it did not meet the specs for hillclimbing.
This is the third supposedly SCCA-Legal roll bar I have seen in the past month that is not up to the standards for hillclimbing. In the most unfortunate case a gentleman had come from North Carolina expecting to enter Giants. The roll bar would not pass tech and he was not permitted to enter the car.
I'm bringing this up just to make people aware. If someone tells you they have an SCCA-legal roll bar in their car and they would like to try hillclimbing, please tell them they should get in touch with a tech inspector to verify that what they have is legal.
Rich Rock
This is the third supposedly SCCA-Legal roll bar I have seen in the past month that is not up to the standards for hillclimbing. In the most unfortunate case a gentleman had come from North Carolina expecting to enter Giants. The roll bar would not pass tech and he was not permitted to enter the car.
I'm bringing this up just to make people aware. If someone tells you they have an SCCA-legal roll bar in their car and they would like to try hillclimbing, please tell them they should get in touch with a tech inspector to verify that what they have is legal.
Rich Rock