Alan Merklin posted:Ed wrote: No one ever fit in the Spyder with their noggin below the top of the windscreen. Well the one Spyder I redid, I sat comfortably below the windshield frame but I had to refabricate the drivers seat some. If there were to be only one driver, install the seat in a fixed location directly on the floor without seat tracks.... Ta - Da!
Well, I sit corrected then. Alan, who is somewhat shorter than Danny and Stan (and I think even me—and I'm 5-7), can indeed sit down below the screen—after appropriate mods to the seat!
Average American man in 1955 was maybe 5-8 and 160. And they still sat tall in these cars!
Average American man today is 5-10 and roughly 195.
Stan says he's what? 6-1?
I guess the good news about the replica is that the lower-the-seat-mod is possible to do, thus making it possible for guys like Alan and me to sit way down low in there like the badass gangsters we are. It's not really possible in the real cars without removing the cross brace that the front of the seat tracks bolts to, which is not recommended.
The only way to make Stan fit in a Spyder the way Alan fit in his is to make the Spyder 20 percent larger in all dimensions.