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Rash of cage failures
5/12/2008 11:48 PM
Have other parts of the country had late model cage failures?  We've had several around here in the past couple of years, even lost a guy in Greenville, MS a year or two ago.
The biggest problems seem to be in used cars that crop up more often in econo classes such as crate and late model stock.
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Rash of cage failures
5/14/2008 8:23 AM
People are out there welding on frames that really aren't very good welders.
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Rash of cage failures
5/17/2008 12:49 AM
These are "store built" cars.
And we had another failure last weekend.  Mastersbilt.  Broke neck.  Front of the cage collapsed three inches.
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Rash of cage failures
5/19/2008 9:01 PM
OMG, that is horrible.  How can those manufactures get away with the substandard stuff.  Not acceptable IMO.  Terrible about the drivers
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Rash of cage failures
5/19/2008 11:09 PM
He'll be fine but it's gonna take a while.  It's the front of the halo that's collapsing, not the back, in most cases.