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Ford RangerMore than two decades ago, the Ford Ranger debuted as an answer to various compact pickup trucks being made available by Japanese automakers. The Ranger was cleanly styled and offered with a choice of a 6-foot or 7-foot bed. Ford boasted that the Ranger had more interior room than the best-selling imports and that 4-by-8-foot construction material could be carried in the bed.
The roof supports were not designed to act as a roll bar, as the industry states that rollovers are not foreseeable events, and are not capable of being tested and reproduced in a controlled testing environment. If one examines the inside of such roof supports, one find them hollow, with made up of nothing but folded/ corrugated light gauge metal - not designed to withstand the force of a rollover, EVEN THOUGH FORD KNEW BY THEIR OWN TESTS THAT THESE RANGER PICKUPS HAD A HIGH PROPENSITY TO ROLL AND THAT THESE ROOF WILL COLLAPSE IN MANY ROLLOVERS
I rolled my '85 Ranger, and the roof didn't collapse. The cab was skewed though... So I cut the roof off about 3" behind the windshield, and at the level of the bootom of the door windows, as well as removed the window frame. I screwed the doors shut b/c a)they wouldn't stay shut on their own and b) the wing windows supports gave the windsheild the support formerly given by the roof. Lots of fun.
i rolled my '91 Ranger too. i shattered the windows out, smashed the cab roof in and smashed the driver side of the hood in about a foot. I would say it rolled over pretty easy but it did hold up ok. For rolling it completely over the only real damage is that the radiator smashed in to the belts and the passenger side of the cab is smashed in.
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