Baby seat in an E-Type ?

[Olivero]

I have my heart set on an E-Type and am just wondering how practical it would be family wise.
Is there room to fit a baby seat in the back of a 2+2 keeping in mind that I am 6'2 and my good lady is almost 6 foot.

Edited by Olivero on Saturday 12th May 18:32

[a8hex]

If you're 6'2" have you actually tried to sit in an E?
I'm 6' and when I drove a SeriesIII FHC I had to put my head through the sunroof.

For baby seats, you won't get one into the rear seat area, I know someone who bolted a baby seat into the rear luggage area.

Once they little un is big enough to sit in a proper upright seat then you might be able to find one to fit, when the law changed about rear seats for kids I couldn't find one to go in my XK150, but the seats were the perfect size for them and the seat belts I had installed by the guy the ministry of transport recommended I contact about such things. But there was no way to get a typed approved (and therefore legal) way of getting a child seat inside what was basically already a child seat.
I ended up getting a letter from the Minister of Transport saying I could legal carry my children in a the car without seatbelts, but I couldn't legally carry them with seatbelts.

As they say
The law is an ass

[Olivero]

a8hex said:

If you're 6'2" have you actually tried to sit in an E?
I'm 6' and when I drove a SeriesIII FHC I had to put my head through the sunroof.

For baby seats, you won't get one into the rear seat area, I know someone who bolted a baby seat into the rear luggage area.

Once they little un is big enough to sit in a proper upright seat then you might be able to find one to fit, when the law changed about rear seats for kids I couldn't find one to go in my XK150, but the seats were the perfect size for them and the seat belts I had installed by the guy the ministry of transport recommended I contact about such things. But there was no way to get a typed approved (and therefore legal) way of getting a child seat inside what was basically already a child seat.
I ended up getting a letter from the Minister of Transport saying I could legal carry my children in a the car without seatbelts, but I couldn't legally carry them with seatbelts.

As they say
The law is an ass

I was just about ok in a 2+2 but it might have had a lowered seat.

Good idea about bolting on in the luggage area, might be just the thing.

Thankfully (!) I am in the US where the law doesn't really bother with such things like car safety.

[DBSV8]

it can be done and you dont need a 2+2
heres one fitted to a series 1 3.8 FHC




you would be hard pressed to fit one in a series 1 with later seats though , alternatively stick a child seat in the front

[6750cc]

a8hex said:

If you're 6'2" have you actually tried to sit in an E?
I'm 6' and when I drove a SeriesIII FHC I had to put my head through the sunroof.

I'm also 6'2" and had absolutely no problems fitting in and driving a Series III FHC. Nor a Series III Roadster for that matter, although vision was sometimes obscured by the windscreen frame.

I've found a lot of other classics far less comfortable which suggests it all depends on leg/body length proportions - you won't know for sure until you try one.

Cheers,

Andy