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Old 02-20-2011, 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Rickd View Post
XB-60 - With the dropped street car dash - if you are 6' or over - you should try to stay with the racing seat rather than the "427 style street seat". The "street seats" are really comfortable (steel tubular frame with spring mounted canvas straps covered with padding and the leather cover). I'm only 5'9", and my right knee is virtually always touching the bottom of the dash. I drove another FIA I was considering buying, that had racing seats, and I was comfortably well below the dash - never got close to it (however it was a racing dash). Lower seat and higher dash.
Thanks Rick, I'll keep that in mind. From what I've seen on this forum so far, the passenger's seat as a standard 427 seat and a Kirkey or similar for the driver's seat isn't uncommon, yes?
I'm 6'2", but I really like the dropped centre dash and the instumentation options that configuration allows.
Mk 4 dashes seem to be dropped a little less but the dropped section is wider than that seen on CSX 2558. Maybe a bit of 'adjustment' to design is OK. I haven't sat in one yet.
Any other taller people with dropped-centre dashboards with comments?
Glen
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