photos of our trucks with light/roll bars

[willett]

Hey guys,

I'm thinking of fabbing up a roll bar for my long box but i want to see some more photos of em first.





thanks

[MadManAndrew]

Mine.

[willett]

any shots from the front?

[MadManAndrew]

From the front of the truck? Yeah, but all you can really see is the lights...The top of the roll bar comes about an inch above the roof.

[DetroitDan]

I know they are way "out", but I still love them. I think they really need to be double/single to look cool. Triple/double is really cool, but takes up a lot more space and I think would create blind spots.
I like chrome but I've seen some powder coated white that looked awesome. Used to be a show truck in a bunch of magazines back in the 80s called Big Dummy, or I think Big Dummy II. Had all kinds of white rollbars and the coolest custom tube bumpers, welded the full length with no gap between. I'm gonna go look for pictures.

[MadManAndrew]

Originally Posted by DetroitDan

I know they are way "out", but I still love them.

+1, if the roll bar on mine didn't look so sweet, I never would have even looked at the truck, lol. Absolutely love them.
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[DetroitDan]

well that was a fail. All I found with a google and yahoo seach was pictures of the truck after it had graduated from a street legal show truck that was in all the magazines, into a full-on monster truck. Pretty sure the truck Iremembered was Big Dummy II. There was a III and a IV, one version had a giant hydraulic scissor lift that picked the body up about another ten feet. But, all the monster truck photos show the truck with a cap on it, and none of the cool tube bumpers I remembered.

[DetroitDan]

I remember all the magazine trucks had rows of KC lights on the rollbars, and it got more extreme with double and triple tiered racks just to add even more lights. And of course you wouldn't want to be accused of being a poser, so in at least one picture the lights would be on, to show that they were all wired up and functional. Probably burned up some alternators.

[MadManAndrew]

Originally Posted by DetroitDan

And of course you wouldn't want to be accused of being a poser, so in at least one picture the lights would be on, to show that they were all wired up and functional.

They're still not functional as actual rollbars though unless they cut through the bed and mount straight to the frame? Completely useless as anything but a lamp stand otherwise, lol, and I don't think I've ever seen an actual pickup that had it done up that way.
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[DetroitDan]

Originally Posted by MadManAndrew

They're still not functional as actual rollbars though unless they cut through the bed and mount straight to the frame? Completely useless as anything but a lamp stand otherwise, lol, and I don't think I've ever seen an actual pickup that had it done up that way.
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Yeah, I agree. they always used to be called rollbars, then they started being called light bars, probably for liability. But lots of people still refer to them as rollbars I think. I've seen them screwed to the bed floor with sheetmetal screws. I saw a video years ago of a guy four wheeling with people standing in the bed holding on to the "rollbar". Guy hits a big bump and the people ripped the rollbar right out of the floor and fell out the back of the truck.

I did consider putting a double single in mine, just to keep with the period of the truck, but I ended up getting another backrack instead. Needed someplace to mount my Edge lightbar.

Love the Suburban above, especially the Trans Am style hoodscoop, never seen one like that. I don't see any rollbar in it though, is it inside? ;> ;>

[motornut]

Originally Posted by MadManAndrew

They're still not functional as actual rollbars though unless they cut through the bed and mount straight to the frame? Completely useless as anything but a lamp stand otherwise, lol, and I don't think I've ever seen an actual pickup that had it done up that way.
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haha you made me think i these picks i took a while back POSER
When i first saw it it looked like a baby deer with big antlers
mine were on the front,soon to be on the roof front and back

[DetroitDan]

tried to find a picture of an 80s showtruck with too many lights, but they were pretty much pre-internet. Found this one, doesn't have dozens of lights but you get my point. This is what I was looking at and drooling over, and tacking up on my bedroom walls when I was about 13.

[Navy_chief]

Well here is the Desert Fox with Hickey Enterprise Inc roll bars and push bar for your viewing

[1tonchevy]

Originally Posted by Navy_chief

Well here is the Desert Fox with Hickey Enterprise Inc roll bars and push bar for your viewing

Now thats probly one of the best Roll bar/push bar set ups for a square truck i have ever seen

[DENTON]

Originally Posted by DetroitDan

tried to find a picture of an 80s showtruck with too many lights, but they were pretty much pre-internet. Found this one, doesn't have dozens of lights but you get my point. This is what I was looking at and drooling over, and tacking up on my bedroom walls when I was about 13.

Is at a short bed?

I was wondering which lifted looks better with roll bar and light, long bed or short Bethany was fall guy?
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[383Chevy]

The suburbans mine the rest arent i jus found em on the net

[88Jimmy4x4]

Originally Posted by 383Chevy

The suburbans mine the rest arent i jus found em on the net

damn...thats the best looking burb I have seen....good job

Heres a link to Sterling MFG in Florida, they make some nice bars

http://www.truckrollbar.com/3barphotos/index5.html

[DetroitDan]

How goofy was it back in the 80s when everyone had excessive offroad lighting, as if they were afraid of the dark, but then they'd put headlight covers over their headlights??

[andro35]

Originally Posted by DetroitDan

How goofy was it back in the 80s when everyone had excessive offroad lighting, as if they were afraid of the dark, but then they'd put headlight covers over their headlights??

What purpose did the headlamp coverings serve?

[Palf70Step]

Originally Posted by andro35

What purpose did the headlamp coverings serve?

Many places were required by law. Most good off-road lights are not legal or street use, so the covers made sure they were not visible on the street if they got "accidentally turned on".

[kipps]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

Many places were required by law. Most good off-road lights are not legal or street use, so the covers made sure they were not visible on the street if they got "accidentally turned on".

That's the requirement in Virginia. The lights have to be covered for the yearly state inspection. Technically, a police officer could cite you for having the lights uncovered while driving, but I doubt they'd bother. They would definitely throw a fit, if they saw you using the lights for highway driving.

[willett]

I agree that on newer trucks they look like the dog's breakfast, but on square bodies they just fit well.

[willett]

i found the magazine from the 70's at my buddies house that has the original write-up on that desert fox. i will see if i can track it down

[Navy_chief]

Originally Posted by willett

i found the magazine from the 70's at my buddies house that has the original write-up on that desert fox. i will see if i can track it down

That sounds great I would appreicate seeing it.
Thanks

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