Hagerty

Crosslands in london

If you remove the diagonal door bars from your chassis, it is no longer considered a cage by All of the drag racing sanctioning bodies.
Your not lying to the insurance company, and it makes it easier to get in and out of the car anyways.
This is the only way to get around them saying the car is being used for sport or racing purposes.
Hope this helps.

-- Edited by Moobster on Wednesday 3rd of June 2015 12:37:43 PM

Found this..might want to call this guy. if anyone would know it should be him.

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I have a 65 Coronet tubbed and six point cage. Jeff Gerber  1 800- 667-1802  Zeher awesome guy... just had to sign a letter saying my vehicle was not being used in race application of any kind.

Rates are excellent... no hassle ... no cutting

ZEHR Insurance --

65 Huron Street

NewHamburg Ont N3A 1K1

 

Anymore info needed let me know

Dave Robertson

Peddlers cc.

As far as im concerned i dont think they should be able to refuse a structurally enforced car I get it that it will cause more damage to the other car but thats not my problem in all the years ive been on the fire dept ive never seen an accident that included a classic car or one that has a roll cage Its always the other cars Wonder why that is ?? Maybe its the guy or girl that has hard earned money into these vehicles that actually use their heads while driving them Of course theres always an acception to the rule But for the most part u cant run to corner garage and get parts for them like the new junk on the rds

I have saw some Pro Street cars really put on a performance leaving cruise nights. Those guys probably ruined it for the rest of the Pro Street Cars. Now the Insurance Company's say "No Thanks" What goes around comes around.

Back in the old days, most of the real street racing (as in quarter mile with the occasional tubbed car, plenty of caged cars, slicks were common too along with nitrous and the occasional open headers) took place very late at night/very early morning, in an abandoned industrial area or the very lightly traveled (at that time of night/early morning) north end of the 404. My feeling is these "ricer racers" brought on a lot of unwanted attention by blasting alone (or racing each other) along heavily traveled roads/highways at ANY time of the day/night, with complete disregard to anyone else, either in another car or on foot. I live in the GTA and I can certainly say that I have seen PLENTY of ricers (lowered imports, stickers, used to have huge rear wings ... pretty easy to spot as they stood out) weaving in and out of heavy traffic on the 401 (and VERY obvious to the general public too) and have never seen a Pro Street car doing this.

Lighting up the tires leaving a show where the crowd is made up of car enthusiasts (both car owners and spectators) has definitely happened (guilty as I myself have had the foot slip off the clutch before too ) but that doesn't make the news. Two ricers blasting through a school zone (during school hours) with one of the cars ending up wrapped around a tree, steps from the bus shelter, well that does make the news.

One other possibility regarding insurance and roll cages specifically is that a roll cage/bar can severally damage a persons head (to the point of death) if the drivers or passengers head contacts the roll bar while not wearing a helmet. Since there are no (or none that I'm aware of) safety standards or installation guidelines for installing cages/bars in street driven cars, the insurance companies may feel it's in their best interest just to refuse insurance to cars equipped with them. In these days of multiple airbags designed to protect the occupants, insuring a car that has a solid steel tube, with no padding on it, sitting within six inches of the driver/passengers heads, I can kind of see their point. A properly designed and installed cage will definitely make for a stronger vehicle but can also easily kill too.

-- Edited by Barchetta on Friday 5th of June 2015 08:03:23 AM

I wonder if insurance companies differentiate between roll cages and roll bars.  I've certainly seen plenty of Mazda Miata's, MG's, Cobra kits, etc with roll bars in them, driving around.

As far as people being killed by the B pillar, I have no doubt that has happened, the difference (as I see it) is the cars were sold that way and were accepted as being safe for sale by the gov't, the insurance companies simply don't have a say in something like that as they weren't installed aftermarket and can't be removed ... an aftermarket cage, installed by anyone with a welder (or a drill for the bolt in ones) is something the insurance companies can dispute.  

I don't work in the insurance industry but I could certainly see (just as an example) an insurance company assessing a Pro Street car with one of those funny car style cages that basically completely surrounds a persons head with unpadded tubing, realizing the person driving the car on the street would not be wearing a helmet, then quickly putting on paper that roll caged cars (ANY roll caged cars) are not insurable ...

 

example of funny car cage in a door slammer.