Country Cars

**wbute** · 15-05-2012, 04:46 AM

Yeah mine was made in 2000 and after that they got huge. Mine is pretty dated looking now though. Have thought about taking it off and going back to a bumper. If I do sure as anything I will smash the front off it with a roo though.

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There are two ways of looking at bullbars, if you are that stupid to walk in front of a car it's no great loss to the world..... Or they provide something good to hang onto as you go under the front..

**Vombil** · 15-05-2012, 08:59 AM

i reckon they are great but over here in WA most of those older cow tippers are technically illegal but the cops dont know it. ive seen hundreds getting around. near every WB has one.

funny about that stupid to walk in front of a car comment [MENTION=3]wbute[/MENTION] . i work with a young girl who is about as stupid as stupid gets... she has to think about when to breathe. anyways she walked in front of a car on stirling hwy the other day and ended ass up with cuts n bruises. when she told me i was laughing so hard i cried

**Rico** · 27-10-2014, 05:22 PM

Geez Buck, you drove a Ford?? I canna believe me eyes. I remember that HZ though....and the circlework vid doin the rounds.

**Beachy** · 27-10-2014, 09:57 PM

This thread made me smile a mate and I designed and named the Wazza roo bar back in 1989 I have the original templates in the shed sorry for my stupidity as a young bloke

**Rico** · 17-08-2015, 10:09 AM

Haha @Beachy Im selling one of your old bars at the moment!

**agr071** · 17-08-2015, 04:09 PM

Always gets me how those 5 post bullbars are legal, but bug catchers aren't.

**Big Rob** · 18-08-2015, 01:41 AM

Originally Posted by agr071

Always gets me how those 5 post bullbars are legal, but bug catchers aren't.

Yeah, and gauges on the cowl! God help the poor pedestrian that loses their life from the impact with a few gauges

, But that bulbar.... no, that's fine.

**wbute** · 18-08-2015, 06:51 AM

Might have a bit to do with getting home safely at night when you are in the middle of no where. The bug catcher or gauges might not really help you much.
Mrs coming home from photographing a wedding at Cobar. Hits a roo at 1am. 5 poster destroys roo. No damage to car. She does around 40000km a year on similar trips.
We have to have these things in Australia. There is nothing to be gained by one section of the car community whinging about another.
NSW has just been put through the wringer because of one Tamworth police and dislike of 5 post bullbars. They are legal.
If I hear that pedestrian thing trotted out again I will scream.
I could bring up the driving around with a tailgate open and carbon monoxide poisoning up. But I won't because that's part of van culture.

**agr071** · 18-08-2015, 08:36 AM

Don't get me wrong James, I don't disagree that they have there place for protection, but as I said to a police officer in 1992, wouldn't it be more concern for the broken hip and legs from the nosecone rather then the cuts and bruises they may get from the bug catcher.
He proceeded to tell me that I could have ACTUALLY been defected for the Statesman bonnet mascot because they could harm a pedestrian as well... go figure.

**wbute** · 18-08-2015, 09:09 AM

Yeah I don't disagree that the rules are stupid! I have no idea why they got so twisted up by a bug catcher either.
I still wonder why a Hilux can have a forward opening scoop got an intercooler from new but you can't have a bug catcher????
They are targeting caravan drivers now for overloading lol. They only target what's easy.... Can't work for something useful like ensuring all our country roads are at a 2015 standard, not a 1937 standard.