Belly room in the replicas?

Welcome! How tall are you?

There area changes that can be made to increase room, one being sure that the steering shaft is all the way forward on the steering coupler spline shaft ( there is about 1" adjustment forward and aft.  A smaller diameter steering wheel.  Also confirm that the seat is all the way back against the rear seat shelf ( raising the front to tilt the seat back also helps) and lastly with some fabrication you can have someone reconfigure the area under the seats for $200 $300 to resemble a paint roller pan,  a 1-1/2 - 2" " drop will do wonders and is fairly simple to do.  

Thanks for all  those tips....the pan and shaft mods I hadn't thought of but spied an '85 Intermeccanica just today wherein the wheel was slammed right up an inch or so from the dash pad....

cheers

ks

Panhandle Bob posted:

Welcome! How tall are you?

Only 6'0" but long torso...inseam of only 30"....fit into an early Miata between the soft top bows but a hardtop scrubs the head...Weight is top secret....just fitting into a new Slingshot but not into a Type 1 or Thing.....The tube frame Intermeccanica was very comfy.....even easy to slide across from the passenger side...

there's some decent discussion on seat styles.  I'm 5'5" and went with VS' cushy seat.  it's a softer ride and allows me to see over the dash.  You'll probably like the bucket seats.  with the cushy seats, you might look like big bird in a clown car.

not sure what you mean by tight quarters for leg room.  i find there's plenty of room for man spreading.

Meh....already look like a circus bear on my motorbikes anyway....Re: leg room...The pan based cars are instantly identifiable by the diagonal angle on the outside edges of the passenger compartment whereas in a tube frame car, you can stretch both legs out.  I like the roadster seats too....and in the Intermeccanica Roadster, my eye line was 4-5 inches below the top of the frame.....Roadsters are uncommon however and the  lower Speedster seats will probably let me see out as well. Additionally I just confirmed that Beck can drop the seat mounts a further 2 inches. I need to find a show somewhere in the Northwest.....swap some owners an iced mocha for a test sit in their cars....