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This was my initial point all together. Not necessarily the difference between chromoly or mild.
Personally I prefer DOM.
Get caging everyone

Either or, if I am going through the hassle to cage my truck you can bet I’m not going to put a “fake” cage in. It will be there because of safety, not to make my truck look cool. Plus that’s a lot of time and money to waste on just welding it to the floor to not pass tech inspection

Here are some exaples of well executed daily driver/race cages. They are tailored towards the needs of a high speed off road truck, but the principals are similar. In a street truck you wouldn’t need the window V-bar (looks like this /\, and the seats could be left stock.
Looking from the front of the truck, the A pillar tubes aren’t noticeable by (again..minus the window V)
Everything is well thought out, and cleanly covered by a professional Upolstery shop.
Some guy will take the time to remove all the stock sheet metal inside the cab, to tuck the tubes so tight they can retain the factory interior panels. At first glance they look like stock interiors besides the front bucket seats.

Two different worlds, but the same theories could be applied to make one hell of a sleeper street truck.

Those are beautiful pics of awesome work! But now you're talking 20k and not 4.5k lol

Gotta pay to play!
These are 100-200k+ prerunners. A single cab street truck can be done similar for closer to 6-10k including Upolstery, depending on who yah know.

It’s a street truck, not a show piece or riddler contestant. I agree they look nice. But I will go for the classic approach of fit and function. I just need it to protect me, not be plated in gold lol

Remove the Upolstery and bam, fit and function. Remember for a street truck, the closer the cage is to the sheet metal.. the further is is from you skull. Tuck it tight and run it through the dash.