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Very cool.

Build what you want man, it's your truck... Just post pictures!

I agree with you 100% about all that. My reading of this was that he wanted a poser rally truck as in he did not intend to race the dakar and jump it 20 feet off sand dunes. Not that he wanted something just for show / looks. Maybe he'll clarify.

I've just never heard anyone advocate against safety equipment for an off-road application in a non-ironic fashion before. I think my outlook is more the roll cage is more impractical than it is unwarranted or undesired. I sure desire one. Stuff happens. Especially in snow.

Think of all the time you can save by not wearing a seatbelt when you learn to drive perfectly too. I wonder what's up with all the gear UTV drivers wear. They must still be practicing I guess.

When your cab gets too heavy to tip because of the roll cage, you might look at the armor setup for inspiration. IIRC they had to go to dual-ram to tip the weight. You might find this old thread relevant too, https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?149191-LMTV-MV-Safety-Improvements

If you do that kind of work, I was just starting to shop around to find a fabricator willing to weld up a frame to mate an off-the-shelf crank-up self-supporting antenna tower with a trailer chassis. Thinking 40' ballpark. I have a rolling M105 chassis already for the project. The frame is...

Those guys are out in Issaquah in the Seattle area, my old stomping grounds. I don't think they intend that truck to be a race truck, it's more something they can take to shows to demonstrate their shops fabrication skills, and that kind of thing. They have a couple of them now, it is always...

She wants to live.

For what it's worth, I've jumped mine, although I can't say I recommend it. This has been talked before, I think even on a thread I brought up, but a big issue is getting a cage on a cabover while preserving the tilt function (and not adding too much weight to an already front-heavy platform)...