Steve`s right BUT there are a lot of ifs there. A lot of it depends on the driver. I`m a big guy,my hair usually just brushes against the headliner in most cars. Getting good bar to head clearance without a helmet just ain`t gonna happen in most cars. I`m a very firm believer in 6 and 8 pt. cages for the street (especially in subframe cars!). If the hoop in put in the proper location your head will never even get close and the low sidebars tie the chassis together through triangulation and provide side impact protection that most vintage muscle cars don`t have. Done properly the side bars aren`t much of an inconvenience at all.
When do you NEED a cage or roll bar? If we had put one in my sister`s 200hp 283/glide `67 Nova that got T boned she (and her best friend) might be alive today. The car squashed like a soda can. We had figured a cage would be "silly" because it wasn`t a fast car.... Marcus SC&C
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