Who has first gens with roll bars? I'm looking for them and they don't seem very common.
Post pics of your truck
where you got the roll bar
manufacturer
and how much

thanks

 

Anyone?

 

Custom built by one of the previous owners. Has a mount for a 2000lb winch, and tabs for two lights

 

I havn't seen them on ANYTHING since I was a kid in the 80's and early 90's

 

my 79 ford had one but i threw it away because i like the stock look. my uncle had one on his 02 chevy, he got drunk and rolled the truck doing 360's.... probably helped him out a little lol

 

i think they were more common on power wagons and stepside chevy's

 

I like the way they look they are def a challenge to find tho

 

im looking for something like this:

 

i know this has probably been asked before but i cant seem to find the answer. does anyone know if a roll bar out of a different gen or different brand truck will fit?

 

All of the light bars I have used on my Mini Trucks and 1-ton Chevy's through the 70's and 80's were made by Smittybuilt, also unless they were specifically Roll Bars and were braced through the bed and into the chassis using steel plates and high strength bolts and were not just 4" exhaust tubing they are only Light Bars and have given many people a false sense if security because they are not really a roll bar just something that looked massive and cool for you to hang your KC lights on.


I live at the base of the San Gabriel mountains were people go off-roading all of the time and I have seen lots of especially lifted trucks coming down the mountain on the back of a flatbed with the supposed roll-bar collapsed into the bed or the roof of the cab.

http://www.sams4x4store.com/SmittybiltTruckBars.htm

Look alikes,
http://www.truckrollbar.com/

Here is where you can get real roll bars.
http://www.horsepowerfreaks.com/sale...ion/Roll_Cages

Jim

 

**** good point! Alot of people call light bars roll bars, and don't understand the difference. In my opinion (and it's worth what you're paying for it) if roll protection is what your after, then you definitely something substantial, and attached through the floor to the chassis. The bars that you see in the beds, including the one in my pic, won't do much in a rollover, but make a different place to mount lights etc/.

 

Back in the 70's when I was into Drag Racing I saw quite a few companies selling roll bars and cages or they would custom make one for your car for several hundred dollars, I never bought one because I knew better but many people didn't. they were making then using sections of exhaust tubing welded together.

If the NHRA inspection would catch them you could not race, there were street racers cars that had rolled and the cages collapsed and actually trapped the person inside making rescue efforts difficult.

There is a lot of difference between thin wall exhaust tubing and .120 Chromoly tubing, also it is a science of angles, bracing and where to install the gussets.

Jim

 

thanks alot. thats definitely information i will keep for down the road. for right now its mostly for looks. but i was actually planning on doing a full interior roll cage that fed into a roll bar in the bed. This is awesome info