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NASA racer · 02-19-03, 02:43 PM

That's what I'm saying...this original LoLa has additional safety equipment required to meet current safety specs ADDED and yet the tube-frame kits do not seem to be available with the same modern safety equipment and are therefore not raceable.

As you know, Ford insisted on roll cages being added to all their cars and a driver age limit of 40 was enforced for 1967 after the Ken Miles crash.

Your Mk IV should have the Ford spec cage (whatever that entails).

quote..."Holman-Moody had taken over the running of GT1012, which had finished second at Daytona in 1966, and it was at this circuit that the tests were held. Peter Revson was in the driving seat when a suspected puncture caused the car to run wide and brush the outer wall. With a now totally flat tyre, the nose of the car lifted and the airflow somersaulted the car into a series of carwheels down the track. GT1012 was totally destroyed, but Revson was able to stagger away from the heavily protected driver's cockpit in which, a year earlier, he would certainly have been killed. The new roll cage had proven its worth."

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NASA racer A Tenth Join Date: Jan 2003 GT40: So. Cal. Posts: 115 Rep Power: 7	Re: Building a car and wanna know the costs.... That's what I'm saying...this original LoLa has additional safety equipment required to meet current safety specs ADDED and yet the tube-frame kits do not seem to be available with the same modern safety equipment and are therefore not raceable. As you know, Ford insisted on roll cages being added to all their cars and a driver age limit of 40 was enforced for 1967 after the Ken Miles crash. Your Mk IV should have the Ford spec cage (whatever that entails). quote..."Holman-Moody had taken over the running of GT1012, which had finished second at Daytona in 1966, and it was at this circuit that the tests were held. Peter Revson was in the driving seat when a suspected puncture caused the car to run wide and brush the outer wall. With a now totally flat tyre, the nose of the car lifted and the airflow somersaulted the car into a series of carwheels down the track. GT1012 was totally destroyed, but Revson was able to stagger away from the heavily protected driver's cockpit in which, a year earlier, he would certainly have been killed. The new roll cage had proven its worth."