Mark-Am in Ottawa almost every second weekend and would be honoured to both meet you and shoot your car(s) if you would allow me to
Nothing wrong with having several Panteras on the site-I never know what my customers want or what colour they like when fitting into a certain decor
My Parents are in Rockcliffe and we are in the process of moving them into a retirement home-selling the house and disposing of furniture-big and emotionally draining job topped off by 9 hrs on the 401!!
Cheers
Bob
Hey Bob, at 6'6" 230 lbs I fit fairly well. My big feet are a issue if I wear the wrong shoes, working the clutch and brake can be a safety concern.
My car has the stock seats with Hall dropped floorppans on both sides. The car was like this when we got it. Unless your wife is really really tall I would go with the dropped pans just on the drivers side. My wife has issues with not being able to see out of the car sometimes.
Jeff
My car has the stock seats with Hall dropped floorppans on both sides. The car was like this when we got it. Unless your wife is really really tall I would go with the dropped pans just on the drivers side. My wife has issues with not being able to see out of the car sometimes.
Jeff
My first pantera I bought was from Matt Merritt, who is 6'-6". He not only drove this car alot but also ran track events with a helmet, without dropped floor pans. He had installed Racecraft seats without any rails, and bolted to the floor. These seats did not have much padding in the seat area which made the difference. One of the guys in our Arizona club, sold his first Pantera to a very large guy (probably well over 300 lbs). He simply removed the seat and had some padding installed on the floor and firewall, and that is how he drives the car!
That's very interesting and in general is a very interesting discussion.
Someone touched upon the thought that the tall guys, like 6'6" already, long, long ago had learned how to fit themselves into just about anything, how to deal with it as everyday life and don't bitch about it.
I think it is a guy like me, that is kinda' in the middle that has difficulty accepting being twisted and compressed into a "cockpit". One similar to a current US military fighter plane. By race car standards and by WWII fighter plane standards, this is a car which by comparison to them is a virtual limo.
I think Rapid touched upon a very critical factor here also, i.e., total mass.
I know that on my home planet of Zluto, I am considered a runt. That is in fact why I got assigned to this very pretty yet universally insignificant oasis. But I degress.
I, with the Pantera in the stock configuration could wear a helmet under the following conditions; 1) the drivers window had to be open 2) I could not look directly ahead since the helmet was against the bulkhead window and pointed my head down. Thus the decision to lower the floor pans 2".
Granted that on the passenger side it is debateable whether or not the passenger should get the same opportunity.
I thought that with the impossible to deal with bubble from the bulkhead projecting largely into the passenger side AND the fact that with the lowered pan the passenger would definately have their knees higher then their eyes it would be a particularly good viewing position for the driver with a female passenger wearing a miniskirt.
Now banish me as you will but I think that it is very important for a Tech from Zluto to know for a fact whether or not the passenger is wearing underware?
Now hold on here...males simply do not qualify as passengers in my Pantera and I don't care if you Scotsmen wear underware under you kilts.
Now see? You guys never considered this criteria before did you?
Someone touched upon the thought that the tall guys, like 6'6" already, long, long ago had learned how to fit themselves into just about anything, how to deal with it as everyday life and don't bitch about it.
I think it is a guy like me, that is kinda' in the middle that has difficulty accepting being twisted and compressed into a "cockpit". One similar to a current US military fighter plane. By race car standards and by WWII fighter plane standards, this is a car which by comparison to them is a virtual limo.
I think Rapid touched upon a very critical factor here also, i.e., total mass.
I know that on my home planet of Zluto, I am considered a runt. That is in fact why I got assigned to this very pretty yet universally insignificant oasis. But I degress.
I, with the Pantera in the stock configuration could wear a helmet under the following conditions; 1) the drivers window had to be open 2) I could not look directly ahead since the helmet was against the bulkhead window and pointed my head down. Thus the decision to lower the floor pans 2".
Granted that on the passenger side it is debateable whether or not the passenger should get the same opportunity.
I thought that with the impossible to deal with bubble from the bulkhead projecting largely into the passenger side AND the fact that with the lowered pan the passenger would definately have their knees higher then their eyes it would be a particularly good viewing position for the driver with a female passenger wearing a miniskirt.
Now banish me as you will but I think that it is very important for a Tech from Zluto to know for a fact whether or not the passenger is wearing underware?
Now hold on here...males simply do not qualify as passengers in my Pantera and I don't care if you Scotsmen wear underware under you kilts.
Now see? You guys never considered this criteria before did you?