GLD now requires you to drag race with your T-Tops out
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GLD now requires you to drag race with your T-Tops out
Safety reasons and sum such via NHRA, anyone else heard this?
So a question is this then.
If I have to race with my T-Tops out, does that mean I still have to race with my windows up? Reasoning they want that is to keep your hands inside the car if you roll over.......
So a question is this then.
If I have to race with my T-Tops out, does that mean I still have to race with my windows up? Reasoning they want that is to keep your hands inside the car if you roll over.......
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Re: GLD now requires you to drag race with your T-Tops out
Never cared for the place much in the first place.
Less reason to now.
Less reason to now.
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Re: GLD now requires you to drag race with your T-Tops out
how often does a car really lose a t top?
maybe if your pushing 500 RWHP and your car isnt boxed... come the **** on though...
thats k. 41 is 10 mins from me
maybe if your pushing 500 RWHP and your car isnt boxed... come the **** on though...
thats k. 41 is 10 mins from me
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Re: GLD now requires you to drag race with your T-Tops out
Never heard this and seen several t top cars race there in june
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From: Chicagoland Suburbs
Car: 1989 Trans Am GTA
Engine: LT1, AFR 195cc, 231/239 LE cam.
Transmission: M28 T56
Axle/Gears: 3.23 10bolt waiting to explode.
Re: GLD now requires you to drag race with your T-Tops out
Except that it invalidates the Windows Up rule to keep your arms inside the car in case of an accident.
So its either T-tops up and windows down, or you are concerned about passenger safety and won't let T-tops run at all.
Never understood that.
In the case of a roll over the windows are going to shatter anyways, so your arms are going to flap around no matter what.
Better to just actually TECH the T-tops are secured.
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Car: 91 GTA, 91 Formula, 89 TTA
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Re: GLD now requires you to drag race with your T-Tops out
I've put a car into a tree and one T-top flew off.
Thing was intact even after I got out picked it up and threw it back into the air in disgust.
Sold the set off actually :-)
Thing was intact even after I got out picked it up and threw it back into the air in disgust.
Sold the set off actually :-)