AndrewCrowne
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After years of being purely Land Rover & BMW I have recently been charmed by Mercedes-Benz after my recent CL500 acquisition.
I am now brand besotted and need more fixes. I tried to buy an SL500 (W107 or is it R107?) today. I arrived at the fitting, it looked the part in metallic black, sounded great, lots of work done... Interior was a wee bit shabby, but nothing that couldn't be fixed.
I could not get the car to fit. My size 11's tangled in the pedals and it was nigh on impossible to get my fairly average 34 inch legs under the steering wheel. Hard top in situ, I then tried to sit up straight. The most comfortable position was my head cocked at 45 degrees. What it would be like with the roof off? I suspected in the words of Jay Leno, I would look like a 'circus bear' ....picking wasps out my forehead in the summer.
Regretfully, I tuned the vendor down.... not quite believing I could not fit into this object of desire, I tried again. Only this time I could not get out, save for leaning onto the ground and crawling from the cockpit.... Not quite the dignified image I had in mind for the races etc....
Highly frustrating.....
Any tips on getting a 6'3" person into an SL?
I am now brand besotted and need more fixes. I tried to buy an SL500 (W107 or is it R107?) today. I arrived at the fitting, it looked the part in metallic black, sounded great, lots of work done... Interior was a wee bit shabby, but nothing that couldn't be fixed.
I could not get the car to fit. My size 11's tangled in the pedals and it was nigh on impossible to get my fairly average 34 inch legs under the steering wheel. Hard top in situ, I then tried to sit up straight. The most comfortable position was my head cocked at 45 degrees. What it would be like with the roof off? I suspected in the words of Jay Leno, I would look like a 'circus bear' ....picking wasps out my forehead in the summer.
Regretfully, I tuned the vendor down.... not quite believing I could not fit into this object of desire, I tried again. Only this time I could not get out, save for leaning onto the ground and crawling from the cockpit.... Not quite the dignified image I had in mind for the races etc....
Highly frustrating.....
Any tips on getting a 6'3" person into an SL?