Fred
I also like the extra elbow room in a side-curtained car but they're not
as good for the very tall. The windscreen is a bit shorter and the steering
wheel is larger. I have a friend who is 6'8" and he cannot sit in the
driver's seat because his legs don't fit down the tunnel without bending
and the wheel gets in the way. The only time he's been in the passenger
seat it looked absolutely hysterical. His entire head wasn't above the
windsheild, but it looked to be close. Some day I've got to get a picture.
Phil Vanner
'61 Midget
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> From: Fred Krampits <fred@hprrc725.rose.hp.com>
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Tallest and Heaviest Midget Owners
> Date: Monday, November 17, 1997 3:22 PM
>
> In reading Brookland's Road and Track on MG Sports Cars 1962-80, I
> noticed many references to comfort of the Midget. If my 63 MK I was not
> a sidecurtain model, I would feel like a sardine. Just as a point of
> Humor, out of us midget owners who is the tallest and who is the
> heaviest? At 5' 8 7/8" I'm not the tallest, but at 220 lbs, I may be the
> heaviest. If not for the door pockets my elbows would be cracking the
> roll up windows.
>
> Fred
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