@550 Phil posted:
I’m 5’7”. When I graduated from high school in 1979 the average height of a grown male in the US was 5’7”. Now the average height of a male in the US is 5’9”. People are getting bigger. In 1955 the average height was more like 5’5” or 5’6”. So yes it would make a lot of sense for someone to do a plus size Spyder. In 2005 I owned a Caterham super 7. With its 210hp Zetec engine and the sweetest 5 speed I’ve ever sampled it would drive circles around my Spyder. But so ugly. I digress. My point is when I ordered my Caterham I had the option of original or plus size. Being now below average I ordered the original. That thing was hard to look at but man could it scoot.
All of those heights seems a bit off "short" to me to be the correct average for the years. My grandfather was born in 1895 and was 5'9, other grandfather in 1900 and was 6'4; only the 6'4 would I have thought of as tall. My Dad was born in 1925 and was 5'10 on a good day, maybe 5'9 was more correct and he always seemed quite average in height, anything but tall me me.
My brothers would have both been full grown by the above quoted 1979 and were each 5'10 maybe a touch higher and I would have thought of them as average as well.
I'm 6' flatand know that I'm taller than avg but know a ton of people my height or taller. I would have believed average height for NA males was 5'10 today.
But if someone dies today at 75, we say they went too young. The average male lifespan in Canada is almost 82 (4.5 years older than the US!?) so perhaps it's all relative when we know so many people living to 90+ (my Dad passed at 93, Mom will be 93 in June).
I guess my family has been tall. I may have tried to ruin it marrying a 5'1 lady but my son is 6' so we dodged a bullet 