Greg,
The roll bar should fit (as long as you can manuever it into the door
opening... much easier in a convertible! :-) but unless your roll bar ties
into the frame currently it's not much more than cosmetic anyway. If
nothing else you'll large backing plates to keep it tied to the floor pan.
And compared to a Mini a Spitfire is monstrous!
Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-spitfires@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-spitfires@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Greg Tobin
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 3:38 PM
> To: spitfires-digest@autox.team.net
> Subject: GT6 rollbar
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> I was wondering if anyone has used one the commonly available "Not a
> real Rollbar for liability reasons" rollbars from VB, TRF, etc that are
> listed for Spitfires in a GT6+??? I have my GT6+ tub stripped
> down and am
> in the seemingly never ending process of sanding it, priming, sanding,
> priming, and would like to do any hole drilling, welding to the underside
> before I paint it.
>
> I have one in my '72 Mark IV, and vague measuring says it
> will fit, but
> before I yank it out of the 72, and test fit it into the tub, I
> was curious
> if anyone has done this? Seeing that my wife and I can move the
> tub around
> by ourselves, I don't really trust that small amount of sheet
> metal to hold
> up in any sort of vehicle altercation, and that rollbar is better than
> nothing.
>
> As a humourous side note: I parked my Spit next to a Sabb Sonnet III
> yesterday, and until that point, I was convinced that the Spitfire was
> small. Compared to the Sonnet, it's the size of a Malibu wagon!
>
> Greg Tobin
> 72 Mark IV daily driver
> 79 1500 garage potato
> 70 GT6+ 2.53 cars in boxes, on sawhorses, shelves....
>
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