Tall Bloke...

[stevoSTi]

Morning all, been thinking about a wedge for a while now but not yet managed to sit in one. I'm around 6'3, will I be too tall as I am for Honda's S2000?

Cheers

steve

[jagdpanther]

stevoSTi said:

Morning all, been thinking about a wedge for a while now but not yet managed to sit in one. I'm around 6'3, will I be too tall as I am for Honda's S2000?

Cheers

steve

You should have no problem at all


I can quite comfortable pilot a Wedge (350) at 6'3" and 22+ stone

I'm not a round build either, former strongman type and the only problem I find, is my right arm being pressed against the drivers doorcard!

My left leg seems slightly squashed in the SE's with the revised dashboards, but I'm sure I could see past that.....

As Clarkson used to say "I can get in any car I WANT to get into"

[PR350]

There is (or was) in fact a member called Tallbloke - think he was about 8 foot at the last count and he had a wedge

[stevoSTi]

Fantastic news all round, thanks all need to sell the Sunbeam Lotus and I can start looking!!

Steve

[jagdpanther]

PR350 said:

There is (or was) in fact a member called Tallbloke - think he was about 8 foot at the last count and he had a wedge

indeed there was

Roger, he's the best part of 7ft not counting his hair

Still has a 350 I think, not seen him for a while though

[grahamw48]

You can see tallbloke on the 2005 BBWF vid in his traffic warden's hat, directing the arrivals.

[pwd95]

Me & Tallbloke, BBWF 06. I'm 5'7'"

[beacon]

pwd95 said:

Me & Tallbloke, BBWF 06. I'm 5'7'"

Wyn he dwarfs you there mate , Im 6, 2 and remember tall bloke being 6ft6 maybe . Wonder how he is ,what with the back and all .

Even though people don't think it, if your tall or big or even tall and big like me the Wedge is a perfect shell and fits everytime

[Trickie Dickie]

Saw Roger a few months ago at The Yorkshire and Humberside Meet

From memory he is 6 foot 7" and although his back is better after
his motorcycle accident, he has had a few blackouts so cannot drive
and so has been travelling the world I beleive in the meantime.

HTH

Richard

[rev-erend]

Very tall people will need to remove the sunvisors .. as they are a bit of a pain..

[wedgeinald]

I'm just about 6ft and the sun visors are just fine in my 280i I either keep them against the screen (if its bright) or pointing up and have never had a problem.

Even with the roof up (against the rules I know!) I still have bags of head room and my seat will still go back at least another 2 "clicks".

Definately no problem driving a wedge if your tall. You'd have to be way past Mr Clarkson's height to have any of that type of issues. I.e if your Britains tallest man you may struggle but then he doen't fit in many cars.

Norman

[beacon]

wedgeinald said:

I'm just about 6ft and the sun visors are just fine in my 280i I either keep them against the screen (if its bright) or pointing up and have never had a problem.

Even with the roof up (against the rules I know!) I still have bags of head room and my seat will still go back at least another 2 "clicks".

Definately no problem driving a wedge if your tall. You'd have to be way past Mr Clarkson's height to have any of that type of issues. I.e if your Britains tallest man you may struggle but then he doen't fit in many cars.

Norman

Blimey WITH THE ROOF UP ...........I spilled my coffee

[hippy]

I'm 6'6" and 19 1/2 Stone , my 280 FHC is fine leg room wise , its a bit narrow between the center console and the door , but thats my fault for drinking to much ALE

Edited by hippy on Saturday 23 August 10:20

Edited by hippy on Saturday 23 August 10:22

[grahamw48]

Compared to a Seven, a Wedge is positively palatial.

[mikeb]

Nice pic Wyn. You can just see me (and my belly!) poking out behind Roger. Sexy Simon on the left backed with Hamish and a couple of our Dutch friends if I an not mistaken!.

I am just a short fat dude and I fit in fine. Also if you get fed up with hitting you're right arm on the door card you could always get a SEAC!

MikeyB

[combine]

grahamw48 said:

Compared to a Seven, a Wedge is positively palatial.

Areed Graham , '7's are not comortable although the wider models now are better but they aren't really ' proper ' . Wedges are like Rolls Royces compared to many sports cars , as long as you don't mind ' the noise ' !

[tallbloke]

Hi all.

Back is much improved, I'm off backpacking in spain with my ladyfriend in october. Got my license restored too, so I'll be back on the scene after I've scraped the rust off the wedge discs next spring.

Meantime I've landed a nice fat engineering contract which should last a few years, so I will hopefully make next year's wedgefest, assuming there is one.



Back on topic, I find the sunvisors are fine, and nicely push the wind over my head with the top down. I did fit some chimaera seats though, which seem slightly lower than the original wedge seats, by about an inch.

Edited by tallbloke on Saturday 30th August 23:43

[grahamw48]

Good to hear from you mate, and that you're on the mend.

Have a good trip...gotta be better weather than here.

[firefox1712]

Roger -

Good to hear that you're doing well mate. Hope it all continues, and we get to meet again some day.

JJ

[jagdpanther]

tallbloke said:

Hi all.

Back is much improved, I'm off backpacking in spain with my ladyfriend in october. Got my license restored too, so I'll be back on the scene after I've scraped the rust off the wedge discs next spring.

Meantime I've landed a nice fat engineering contract which should last a few years, so I will hopefully make next year's wedgefest, assuming there is one.



Back on topic, I find the sunvisors are fine, and nicely push the wind over my head with the top down. I did fit some chimaera seats though, which seem slightly lower than the original wedge seats, by about an inch.

Edited by tallbloke on Saturday 30th August 23:43

Heelllllllloooooo Roger, it's been a long time me old mucka

Glad to hear you're well, active AND looking forward to a lucrative contract