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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: hotel21 on 05 January 2012, 11:52:50
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.... its a challenge to get in and out of a Lotus Exige without doing your back in.
Got one as a trade in at the moment and I had to move it. Not built for big lads, are they... ;D
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I used to have problems gettin in my sisters old fiat cinquetenta yrs ago. was like trying to fit in a kitchen cupboard. not idiot i ever got in one
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Now that would be a big problem for me. too low and small
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There is a very comical picture of me in the pax side of a friends VXR220 (same car, different shell, essentially) - me at ~24st and him at ~16st. 1st & 2nd gear was very 'intimate'.
Although the drivers side of the same car (I got to drive it a few years later after it had been made significantly faster) is surprisingly roomy. Still not easy to get in & out over the enormous sills though - I could only do it with the roof off :-[
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being 6ft5, I struggle with most little sports cars. Usually end up driving with my knees ;D
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Quite a lot of leg room in the VXR actually - length wise.. I certainly have to shuffle the seat forward a fair way, and I'm 5' 10" so not that short! I suspect it feels so roomy because of the somewhat sparse interior finishings, though ;D
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being 6ft5, I struggle with most little sports cars. Usually end up driving with my knees ;D
I sympathise, at 6'4½", 6' of which is leg! So driving my daughter's MG TF is not fun! :(
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being 6ft5, I struggle with most little sports cars. Usually end up driving with my knees ;D
I sympathise, at 6'4½", 6' of which is leg! So driving my daughter's MG TF is not fun! :(
Most of my height is leg too, the Corsa C i leaned in had no adjustable steering column, I'd actually say it was border line dangerous me driving that!
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I helped build a Caterham Super7 once, and was given a drive. No chance, as my legs jammed the wheel. Shame. as it was a hot little motor, had the 1340cc Cosworth Classic engine.
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No(t many) problems getting into SWMBO's Smart Roadster, definitely OK once you're in. I know another lad that owns a Roadster & would love to be able to buy an Exige/Elise but can't get his 6' 3" /23st arse over the sill ;D
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No(t many) problems getting into SWMBO's Smart Roadster, definitely OK once you're in. I know another lad that owns a Roadster & would love to be able to buy an Exige/Elise but can't get his 6' 3" /23st arse over the sill ;D
Pfft, he's not trying hard enough.. or had the roof on ;D ;D ;D
I was probably 26st when I drove Mark's.. 28st 8lb now, good job he's sold it for a 911 (not that I've managed to steal the keys to that, yet..)
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I helped build a Caterham Super7 once, and was given a drive. No chance, as my legs jammed the wheel. Shame. as it was a hot little motor, had the 1340cc Cosworth Classic engine.
I can't even get near to getting into a 7-esque car .. unless I put the seat on the transmission tunnel and made it a single seater ;D
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In the very early 70's I got seriously stuck in a Lotus Europa - despite the bloke who was with me advising me not to try getting into it.
Without exaggeration, it took several people and a fair bit of bollocking about to get me out of it without breaking any bits from the car (or me) and before the onset of cramp.
What a fuppin' car - it must have been designed for those of modest stature.
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You should have seen me trying out the various Cobra replicas.. it was comical at times! Especially the more 'original' cars with the big wooden steering wheels; I just didn't fit at all.
Well, I did, but steering would have been a problem.
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being 6ft5, I struggle with most little sports cars. Usually end up driving with my knees ;D
Finally, the real reason Tunnie drives so slow is out! ;D
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I struggle getting in and out of my Omega!!! :(
And at a height of less then 6'
The only way to get in to my wife's Copen is with the roof down
Getting out is by being dragged out backwards by the shoulders.
Geez I must be really old or **ackered (knees and hips) :)
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Coppers look young!!.... ::)
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Coppers look young!!.... ::)
What about retired coppers, love? :-* :-*
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Coppers look young!!.... ::)
Definitely! I also saw a cartoon the other day which was along the lines of "Do you realise that to the youth of today, grunge is as old to them as Woodstock was to us when grunge was new.." :'(
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if you remember woodstock you werent there ;D
had a race sprite few years back got my 6ft 3 father inlaw stuck in it histerical 3 of use trying to get him out,
now im not laughing enymore knackerd knee so auto a must for daily drive bad hip bad back 'dangle berries' to getting old but im just worn round the edges, still manage to rag my beach buggy about but hate getting in staffic jams lol :y
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Ah, here it is:
(http://basicinstructions.net/storage/2012-01-03-older.gif)
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You know when your getting old when it take you "all night to do" what you used to "do all night" ::) ;)
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You know when your getting old when it take you "all night to do" what you used to "do all night" ::) ;)
Fred Wedlock, I think it was..... ;D :y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOqtmmwa0d0
sorry for the ewe toob link, sheep followers... ;D
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Coppers look young!!.... ::)
What about retired coppers, love? :-* :-*
Them too Den :-* :-*
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I knew I was getting old when Daz looked young ...... or maybe I was getting pished ... :)
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I knew I was getting old when Daz looked young ...... or maybe I was getting pished ... :)
Must have been good stuff......... :D :D
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I knew I was getting old when Daz looked young ...... or maybe I was getting pished ... :)
Must have been good stuff......... :D :D
Broocie's fire water is the best ... :)
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When your daughter likes to sing the theme tune to 'New Tricks'......it doesn't really matter when you are old and grey...... :( :( :(
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I knew I was getting old when Daz looked young ...... or maybe I was getting pished ... :)
Must have been good stuff......... :D :D
I have feelings you know ;D