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I'm glad someone else has the same issue with flies i only run an rac rollback at present I drive a fair bit after dark so every couple of trips out the bar looks like it's covered in fibreglass or should I say flyberglass it's a job to clean can only imagine a whole cage being a nightmare

I thought I had spoken to custom cages. I don't think anything is listed on their website, did you have to leave the car with them ?

I would expect it to cost more than Cagedlaser to be honest (and probablu weigh more) but I do like the way it looks

Yeah you're right, just seen the link. It looks nice for competition, might be too much for road use 🤔 Not sure about the price, however they list free shipping in UK and EU on their website...

They do state it's FIA compliant

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I absolutely love my full cage, for all the reasons you mentioned. I'm even up for the ballet bit!

For me no down sides to a full cage, stiffens the chassis, full roll over protection, somewhere to haul yourself out, and best of all daughter can use it as a ballet bar 🤷‍♂️ Custom cage made to a very high standard, in a bigger diameter tube than the msa cage. And the The ballet bar, 2nd position apparently 🤷‍♂️ I have just thought of a downside to a full cage.....the amount of flies and bugs that get splattered on it!

Are you sure @marcusb? I crossed the finished line and ran home before you’d even switched your phone on 😎

That's the petty bar. I've seen it used with rollbars to strengthen the chassis, not sure how useful it is with a full cage 🤔 That cage looks very robust tho, but I'm quite sure it isn't FIA homologated, so there is really no point on getting it instead of the Caged/Westfield one which is.

@Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO you missed out on the charity track run today 😎

A few pics from today, the blue Healey is Hamsters He’s racing this weekend in it 😎

Yes, perfect, how much would you sell for and postage. Thank you

Is this what you are looking for?

I do take the occasional sunny one too 😂

@Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO you’ve got it wrong with the quavers!!!! His a northerner so to soft for him 🤣 I’m going for a bag of Pork scratching, I reckon he will take the deal 🤞

I've never been sure about cages where they have that bar on rose joints that comes down into the cabin. Will surely add rigidity and help prevent the cage collapsing if upside down but how safe is it if you are being thrown around inside the car, surely it will just be something else (possibly nearer) to be smashed into?

Spotted this on the Customcages Instagram page the other day which looks interesting.... A few screen grabs if you haven't got Insta https://www.instagram.com/p/DNDIuOENsuz/?igsh=MXRtOG04MWl2ZjNpag== https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMKbacGNfPD/?igsh=NWtkazdrNmU1NDB0

@Mat Jackson 1975 I’ve PM’d you regarding the pictures 👍🏼

Can you turn the sun mod back on so I can look at the cars

Good to see at least one Westie will be there! Have a great weekend @Glynn Walters 👏👏

I’ll start the bidding with 3 bags of quavers

I’ll let the owner @marcusbshare that story. First he has to realise I’ve put his car up for sale!🤣🤣

My son and I fitted my FIA cage in a weekend. Fitted four eye bolts into some 4x2 cross beams, feed some rope through and hoisted the cage over the car. Lined it all up, marked on masking tape and checked, then checked again. Pilot drilled the key fixings front first and all was good. I decided to weld in the side impact bars in, rather than bolt as it was a neater job and avoided drilling yet more holes in chassis box section. All in all pretty straightforward. Definitely stiffens up the chassis. In terms of getting in and out.... yes you've gotta be pretty flexible... Mines lowered floors and id say for me a detachable steering wheel is mandatory. That said I'm overweight, 65y old, 6ft 2 inches but still can get in and out reasonably OK. Not sure for how many more years though 🤔. Getting in, is left leg in first, head up through the hole in roll cage, grab the top, right foot in and lower your bum into the seat. Getting out is trickier, head up through the gap, right leg out, duck under and left leg out... I'll have to video the manoeuvre, it'll make for some good laughs 😃

We had our meet up this evening. Roger who lives near me in Andover came along. He has a small collection of Duttons. He has been using one a lot recently as his daily Rover needed work for the MOT. It passed yesterday so he came along in that. Stuart who owns a very nice Westfield also came along. I haven't seen any other Westfields recently so it was interesting to see another one parked next to mine. The Pub was nice but reasonably busy. I might have to research other local pubs to see what else is around. I've had interest from a couple of Robin Hood owners so it might be worth moving to somewhere more central. I completely forgot to take pictures, sorry.