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To: "R. A. Woodward" <conn@wctc.net>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [BOUNCE spitfires@Autox.Team.Net: Non-member submission from ["Kevin Builta" <kbuilta@gte.net>] global taboo body match "/<HTML>/i" at line 24]
From: "James Carpenter" <jc_carpenter@softhome.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:01:57 -0000
>> Hello, I'm new to watching this list but...it's been a dream for over 20
>> years to have a Spitfire and circumstances are now such that it's
>> possible (oh boy oh boy oh boy). Problem is I'm a much bigger boy now
>> than I was in high school. Who's the biggest Spitfire driver out there
>> and what is the general opinion of how tall and how big is too tall or
>> too big ? Concerns would be how tall before your head hits the inside of
>> the roof, how big before you can't fit in the bucket seat, etc...
>
>I can't help you much with the "tall", but I got the "big" nailed. I'm 5'9"
>and 260. I used to go 320 and still had no problem getting in or out of a
>Spit with the top up. I just sort of back in, sit, duck my head in then
pull
>the feet in last.


Hight wise, I'm 6'3" and have plenty of head and foot room, but I do have
aproblem with sholder width, because of the angle of the seat etc, it does
meen my sholder hit's the aluminium polished bit on the 'B' post.

I do know someone who is 6'7 so I may try and get him to try the car out.


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