Back when we owned the aging Emperor I considered adding a roll bar to stiffen up the chassis some. I never could seem to pull the trigger on the cost of one though. John Haff of Clunk & Thunk fame runs a ’91 Miata in NASA‘s TTE class and has been threatening forever to turn his wife’s ’99 Miata into another race car now that she doesn’t drive it so much. The ’99 has a Hard Dog Hard Bar installed in it and I have told John several times when he welds a race cage into that car I’d buy the used bar from him.
Donna and I drove over to Augusta’s Cars and Coffee this morning to check out the cars (even had our peekture taken.) John Haff was there with a “booth” trying to entice people to join NASA to go racing on weekends. When we stopped to chat, John asked how I liked my “new” car. His next question was, “How’d you like to swap that Hard Dog Ace roll bar for the Hard Bar?” “No thanks,” I said.
We also went there to see if we could find some cars with stripes on them and ask where they had them done. We struck out. Oh, there were a ton of cars with stripes, but all the older cars had them painted on and all the newer cars had vinyl, but they came from the dealer that way…