This was my first impromptu car show I attended...... half the fun of the show was allowing kids to climb onboard....that was easy.... then I talked some fo the kids' Dad to try sitting in....some big guy just could not do it...... some did..... at which point I slammed the door shut and tell them to pretend they were shot art and get out quick..... Ihave concluded that one would most likely dive out head first..
The proper protocol for me is to insert the left leg first.... and make sure it is stretched fully to the firewall....then back your butt in the seat.... with your back in the seat.... now grab your bottom right pant leg and lift it over the front fender hump and slide it forward. NOW remember that the clutch if on the left side..... brake on the far right and the gas pedal in the middle......\
The foot well is sooooo narrow that I purchased a pair of Italian brown fancy boots that are very narrow so I can drive...... my regular safety boots size 11 1/2 are to wide to safely drive without touching two pedals at once.......
It's a riot to drive, it is hot, rides rough... which explains the thick rubber pad glued to the inside of the roof over the seats, noisy, uncomfortable, very musical with straight cut gears in the T case and non-synchro crash box....and did I mention HOT......
I am now installing a tropical kit..... which when complete I will post pictures....but basically it allows to drive with the suicide doors held open "AJAR" by a reproduced 8 inch long screen door hook!!!!!
Makes you understand WHY when you see the trucks used in the North African campaign the hood are missing, the doors got lost somewhere, roofs are removed and replaced with canvass and most have no windshield as glass was a hazard.......... and yet most were 2 wheel drive as they were better on gas mileage.....
More to follow....maybe a video of getting onboard and ejecting.....
Cheers
